I guess you know every one of the people employed there personally.
It is not to protect their pensions.
I do know of one who was a childhood acquaintance.
He passed the buck to protect his pension to complete the max 30 years employment allowed before he was forced to retire and find work elsewhere.
He quickly found his employment prospects slim due to the bad reputation of FBI agents to be with Lack of Condor.
I seem to have made one FReeper go dark ‘bout two years ago. He was a retired FBI agent and I posed this to him…he got upset.
at a certain point the lack of mass resignations compels the conclusion that yes they are fully willing to play political secret police and that there are few if any dissenters to that paradigm