I thought about a guy like Comey, had a tramatic experience in youth, wanted to make a difference and loved the cops who her interacted with as a child.
Sociopaths glom onto people like him, dudley do rights that want to make a difference, they convince them they are doing the right thing and sometime you gotta be bad to get the bad guy.
He was an easy target has been told how smart he is through his manipulation and positions he believes he is smart.
Notice he never writes his own quotes, always borrowing from the greats. He is an empty suit, and was used.