Report: Multiple DOJ, FBI Officials Weigh Lawyering Up in Fear of Being ‘Criminally Investigated’

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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 government of rogue and corrupt actors within the administrative state.

Last week, Trump transition adviser Mark Paoletta warned DOJ career attorneys that subverting, undermining, or sabotaging Trump’s incoming agenda will 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.”
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.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/19/report-multiple-doj-fbi-officials-weigh-lawyering-up-fear-being-criminally-investigated/

[Fishrrman]

Why are you afraid?
Why are you hiring a lawyer?
You didn't do anything wrong,
Right...?
Right...???

[DefiantMassRINO]

They could always seek assylum in foreign embassies.

Paoletta cited examples of potential policies the DOJ might have to implement:

- deporting illegal aliens (What's the problem? They're criminals.)

- securing the southern border (Is protecting America a problem for this American Government agency?)

- banning race-based affirmative action  (Race-based dicrimination is illegal.  Whites need not apply is racial discrimination.)

- investigating antisemitism  (Isn't that already a hate crime?  Are certain groups allowed to be hated?)

- halting big tech censorship  (Big Tech should not be Big Borther's thought police.)

- granting pardons and commutations to January 6 defendants  (Some may have been over-prosecuted, over-sentenced, or unfairly selectively prosecuted.)