Anyone who succumbs to blackmail is crooked, and if the price is anything related to the government or military then they are traitors.
Blackmail is a participatory crime, you become a partner in crime with the blackmailer.
I found the operation of our government a great mystery, until I realized the missing variable that made all the equations work.
Blackmail.
I think there are drastically more people being blackmailed than people can imagine.
In combination with bribery corruption, it explains everything