Complaining about the injustices within the FBI is just as self-destructive and fruitless as complaining about the injustices in the military services. You get branded as a troublemaker, and shuttled into some slot where you remain forever ineffectual, until the time you may finally depart the premises, never to return.
Unless you get jailed first. For totally fictitious charges, and no chance of appeal.
Yeah. So They would face negative consequences. Maybe soldiers should refuse to go on patrol too. If they are too cowardly to accept the consequences of telling the truth about the coup, they have no business in the CIA or FBI. At least snowden had balls and loved America.
You are indeed correct. I was in the middle of my 32-year military career and our base went through an "ORI" (Operational Readiness Inspection) by the IG. The wing commander and his Vice at the time had really been screwing my unit at the time (we were what was known as a "GSU" - a tenant unit) and didn't support them directly - but it was their obligation to support us. That was the support agreement and the regulations.
Well - I also knew that not only were they screwing us over - but I had come across information that they were doing some illegal stuff with construction funds - and lying about how they were obligating those funds. SO - I went to the visiting IG about what they were doing to us and what they were doing illegally (since the local IG was a bought and paid for "deep state plant" - hired by the boss. Going to the IG is the right of ANY service member (as any service member here can attest...and all will also attest it is an illegal order to tell you to keep your "mouth shut to the IG."
Well...the IG spoke to the Wing Commander about his activities and it didn't take "simple math" to put two and two together to figure out where it had come from. The Wing Vice called me and my commander into his office and let us have it. Now - he couldn't prove anything - and we denied everything (and lucky for us - other stuff was told to them that we could not possibly know - but the BIGGY we did tell) - and he even said "did I not order you to KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT TO THE G..D DAMN IG?"
I simply said - treading on EXTREMELY THIN ICE - well COLONEL - "Would that be a lawful order? I'm not sure - can I consult the IG about the legality of that order?" I was young and cocky. I thought my commander was going to stroke out. The only thing that saved my career was that both of them got transferred.
Did they lose their careers or pensions? NOPE. Both eventually got FULL retirements.
In SHORT: These were SMALL fish compared to the players we are really asking about. So NO. Based on experience - I most certainly do not expect ANY of these players to face ANY justice. I don't care how many "booms" or Tick tocks" or "Q-drops" - or "Lock her up" chants are heard. It's all a play....and we are the audience. Read my tagline. This is a theatre for the sheep. Eventually, people are going to have to decide to stop paying admission to the play.