Report: Multiple DOJ, FBI Officials Weigh Lawyering Up in Fear of Being ‘Criminally Investigated’
Wendell Husebo 19 Nov 2024
Multiple former and current DOJ and FBI officials are considering hiring lawyers “in anticipation of being criminally investigated” by the incoming Trump administration, three people with knowledge of their deliberations told NBC News.
The preemptive initiative underscores a serious belief that President-elect Donald Trump will make good on his promise to purge the federal governmentof rogue and corrupt actors within the administrative state.
Last week, Trump transition adviserMark Paoletta warned DOJ career attorneys that subverting, undermining, or sabotaging Trump’s incoming agendawill be cause for termination.
Paoletta cited examples of potential policies the DOJ might have to implement, such as deporting illegal aliens, securing the southern border, banning race-based affirmative action, investigating antisemitism, halting big tech censorship, and granting pardons and commutations to January 6 defendants.
“Everything we did was aboveboard,” a former senior FBI official alleged on NBC News. “But this is a different world.” (That doesn’t mean honest or by the law, it means, Bidan, Garland and Wray approved of it.)
Some career Justice Department officials cried after Trump won the election, according to the report, due to the realization that Trump would likely try to rid the administrative state of a cesspool of corruption. (Anons, many memes needed of DOJ and FBI crying!)
The term “administrative state” describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies, including the national security apparatus, exercising power to create and enforce their own rules. The administrative state uses its rule-making ability to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not formed by the Constitution.
In October 2020 Trump signed an executive order (EO) to reclassify federal government employees into Schedule F, which would have allowed the president to enhance accountability, including job performance accountability, within the bureaucratic agencies. “You have some people that are protected that shouldn’t be protected,” Trump said in April about Schedule F.
President Joe Biden canceled the order in 2021, but with Trump’s victory, he could reimplement the executive order and purge the unelected technocrats artificially running the federal government.“It would effectively upend the modern civil service, triggering a shock wave across the bureaucracy,”Axios concluded in 2022 about the EO’s potential impact.
Many unelected bureaucrats within the administrative state use their position to inflict their own agenda on citizens.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/19/report-multiple-doj-fbi-officials-weigh-lawyering-up-fear-being-criminally-investigated/