Summary

Nine anonymous FBI agents have sued Trump’s Justice Department, alleging an unlawful purge of officials involved in January 6 and Trump-related investigations.

The lawsuit challenges a DOJ survey used to identify and potentially fire agents, calling it political retribution.

Agents fear data breaches and retaliation, citing Elon Musk’s alleged access to government databases.

The lawsuit claims violations of privacy and First Amendment rights.

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    It doesn’t sound like a very wise idea for the government to betray people who have been trained for covert ops, who may also already know how to find people that are willing to take action against the current government.

    But what do I know. I’m not qualified to be president*

    *Too poor, too female, and too focused on the good of the people. I have an ice cube’s chance in hell.

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      Yea choosing vigilante justice would likely come with a significant sacrifice of personal freedom or even life - that’s why no justice has been the prevailing choice so far.

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        The crazier shit gets, this possiblity only increases. All it takes is some secret service, or intelligence agent to lose their job or something, and snap.

        And the more that they fuck with people’s livelihoods, the more dangerous things are going to get for them.

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          Doesn’t even need to come down to a ‘snap’. Every single federal employee and member of the military swore an oath to defend the constitution from all threats foreign and domestic.

          Trump still stealing this world’s oxygen is a result of countless people falling to live up to that oath.

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            Yeah. I wake up every day praying to the god that I know doesn’t exist, that I will be greeted with a headline proclaiming that someone has finally fucking stepped up.

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              Blows my mind that it hasn’t happened yet. I’m really trying to give humanity the benefit of the doubt that and just roll with the assumption that we’re fucking spineless, but that suspension of disbelief is becoming harder and harder to maintain with fuckers like Trump not screwing us out of an election via some kind of electoral college bullshit; but actually winning them cuz the majority of people either fucking love his Nazi rhetoric, or are unbothered by it enough that they’re not willing to lift a fucking finger to stop it.

              So… I think I need to come to terms with the fact that humans are just evil.

              On that note, my sincerest thanks and appreciation to those of you who are an exception.