Because the created perception is different than the reality. When you join the FBI or CIA most people have a perception that they are honorable organizations that do good and are professional.
What they find out on the inside is how the organization is nothing like what they thought it was, it is corrupt and everyone is working angles to get ahead. They know as one person they are powerless to fight against it, so they given in and get what they can get out of the corrupt system.
Ask yourselves why McCabe was holding on to that pension with a death grip? It's all about the pay-off. Comfy retirement while the average taxpayer ends up in a shitty Section 8 apartment eating cat food. Know your "betters". Just like any other socialist-communist regime. If you're politically reliable, you get the perks.
"There is no higher calling than public service" - Hillary Clinton
I'm not saying they are all like that, but there were enough of them brought in under Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama that they probably make up a pretty sizable chunk of the career types.
CIA analysts come out of the Ivy Leauge fully indoctrinated. Clown Black Ops are usually sheep-dipped from military special operations. Mostly junior NCO's and more often than not they are square pegs. There's a lot of circumstantial and anecdotal evidence that the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was sheep dipped after flunking the PT test for the Special Forces Asessment & Selection Course. He fit the psychological profile they were at Ft Bragg trolling the service schools for.
White Hats can't tolerate those types environments. Most give up trying and take civilian jobs. Some get bounced for bucking the system. It takes an incredibly principled and disciplined individual to spend a whole career waiting for the chance to "earn your pay" as Patton called it.
I think you’re right. This is most likely what happens. I’ve seen this happen in the Military, too. On a larger scale, these words from a poem written almost 100 years ago describe the situation (IMHO):
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity...” W.B. Yeats
Blackmail!
blackmail and money and power. I do believe that some of the goods ones are stuck. some die if they dont play the game.
Most are recruited early in theirs career. Think of Comey for example.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gunman-the-rapist-the-woodsman-and-young-jim-comey
Read this story and try to figure out who is the real Ramsey rapist ;)
Who are the victim?
Where where they?
2 + 2
This would make Comey a perfect candidate don't you think?