The scrutiny of career agents is highly unusual given that rank-and-file FBI agents do not select the cases they are assigned to work on, do not historically switch positions or receive any sort of discipline because of their involvement in matters seen as politically sensitive cases and especially because no evidence has emerged that any FBI agents or lawyers who investigated or prosecuted the cases engaged in misconduct.
But there are numerous allegations of misconduct, ranging from lying to the public and news agencies about the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop and falsely accusing Trump of colluding with Russia, to planting agents in the Jan 6 crowd to incite a riot, denying defendants access to their attorneys and basically torturing them.
It doesn't matter if these activities were endorsed or encouraged by the administration at the time. They are either illegal and/or constitute misconduct or they don't. Just like obeying an unlawful order is not a defense for the military, engaging in misconduct or illegal action at the behest of the Biden administration is no defense for civilian employees.
I guess would be that the current administration already has a pretty comprehensive list of things that considers misconduct and is asking for these questionnaires from employees to see if anything they did falls on that list. You have no expectation of privacy from your employer regarding official acts that you performed on duty for that employer. If they think this information is going to be used to unlawfully terminate them, there's a fairly robust formal process for federal employees to dispute it.
They also staged a photo after raiding Trump's home to make him look guilty by putting documents they found into folders marked "Top Secret" or whatever, then snapping photos and leaking them to the press.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I thought I read that they found some cover sheets and laid them out to make it look like there was a whole bunch of classified under them but there was either nothing there or unrelated documents that weren't classified themselves. The cover sheets are not controlled and are not classified themselves.
At a minimum, I'd say it's a form of slander, because they were clearly trying to imply that the photo was of actual classified information they found.
They also do this sort of shit to everyone they arrest. Every criminal case I've looked into is full of puffery and little things blown out of proportion, regardless of any actual crimes committed. They just forgot to turn this behavior off when dealing with someone that was going to result in them getting called out for it.
But there are numerous allegations of misconduct, ranging from lying to the public and news agencies about the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop and falsely accusing Trump of colluding with Russia, to planting agents in the Jan 6 crowd to incite a riot, denying defendants access to their attorneys and basically torturing them.
It doesn't matter if these activities were endorsed or encouraged by the administration at the time. They are either illegal and/or constitute misconduct or they don't. Just like obeying an unlawful order is not a defense for the military, engaging in misconduct or illegal action at the behest of the Biden administration is no defense for civilian employees.
I guess would be that the current administration already has a pretty comprehensive list of things that considers misconduct and is asking for these questionnaires from employees to see if anything they did falls on that list. You have no expectation of privacy from your employer regarding official acts that you performed on duty for that employer. If they think this information is going to be used to unlawfully terminate them, there's a fairly robust formal process for federal employees to dispute it.
They also staged a photo after raiding Trump's home to make him look guilty by putting documents they found into folders marked "Top Secret" or whatever, then snapping photos and leaking them to the press.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I thought I read that they found some cover sheets and laid them out to make it look like there was a whole bunch of classified under them but there was either nothing there or unrelated documents that weren't classified themselves. The cover sheets are not controlled and are not classified themselves.
At a minimum, I'd say it's a form of slander, because they were clearly trying to imply that the photo was of actual classified information they found.
They also do this sort of shit to everyone they arrest. Every criminal case I've looked into is full of puffery and little things blown out of proportion, regardless of any actual crimes committed. They just forgot to turn this behavior off when dealing with someone that was going to result in them getting called out for it.