FBI, DoJ, CIA Political Purges Create Security Nightmare

A small but growing number will be tempted to sell secrets, experts say

It's an “actuarial certainty,” knowledgeable intelligence sources say, that some people holding security clearances will turn coat and commit treason sometime during their career, or after they’ve left their jobs with plenty of national defense secrets in their heads. The triggering moment, they say, often comes when they feel they’ve been mistreated by their employer.  Like being unfairly fired.

That’s just during normal times. That percentage just got a boost with news of “widespread, abrupt terminations” at the Justice Department and FBI.

“One Justice Department lawyer was suspected of being fired because he used a ‘he/him’ designator in his email signature,” The Washington Post reported Thursday. “People interviewed say they believe another lawyer was ousted because of a message he put on social media. Others told to leave may not mesh with or may be disliked by Trump’s political appointees, the people said. And some are suspected of speaking to the media without authorization.”

The purge is full on at the FBI, where career officials are being strapped up to polygraph machines and queried about their loyalty to Director Kash Patel and his sidekick, rightwing firebrand Dan Bongino.