The bureaucrats who conducted illegal lawfare against Donald Trump and Republicans are running scared and lawyering up. 

Good. 

I am not a fan of using government power to enact revenge or to wield political power as a cudgel, so I don't want Trump to create a witch hunt against anybody who disagrees with him. But if he does this right, he will be excising a cancer by prosecuting those who did precisely that over the past 8 years. 

Current and former senior DOJ and FBI officials are reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration, people with knowledge of their deliberations say. https://t.co/5HvKLBiNNT

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 18, 2024

No doubt, some left-wing conspiracy theorists will claim that Trump will be using lawfare against his political enemies, violating the norms that have kept our country free. Exactly the opposite is true. For the past decade at least our Justice Department and all the three-letter agencies have been running wild, breaking laws, and abusing their power under the color of law. It's not revenge or even justice that we need. 

MSNBC is in panic mode over Kash Patel, calling him a ‘threat.’ The truth? He’s a threat to their Deep State. Cleaning house at the DOJ and ending FBI tyranny is exactly why we voted for him. When will they get it? pic.twitter.com/yN1ifLPPOK

— Restricted Daily (@Restricted_on_X) November 13, 2024

We need examples to be made of the lawless bureaucrats. 

Multiple current and former senior Justice Department and FBI officials have begun reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration, according to three people with knowledge of their deliberations.

Following Trump’s decisive election victory, many DOJ officials and career staffers were already nervous about the possibility that they would be targeted by Trump loyalists, particularly members of Congress. But the selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, far-right Trump ally who was the subject of a recent FBI investigation, to lead the department has sharply increased the sense of alarm, the sources said. 

FBI officials committed perjury, lied to the FISA Court, hid evidence of crimes, persecuted Trump's allies, invaded the former president's home, invented cases, and, in one case, left the Justice Department to lead the prosecution of Trump in New York. The FBI opened an investigation based on the Steele Dossier, which they knew to be a hoax. 

David Sacks: “Anybody who bought into the Russiagate hoax is not qualified to run the DOJ – Matt Gaetz was one of the most outspoken critics in Congress of this weaponization of the FBI and he was NEVER fooled by the Russiagate hoax.

It's very predictable what we're seeing with… pic.twitter.com/DdFCTk0bYH

— ALEX (@ajtourville) November 16, 2024

These people must be prosecuted for their crimes. The alternative is to turn the Justice Department and the three letter agencies into even more of a Stasi than it already is, weaponized against the American people. 

As the Democrats would say, "nobody is above the law," and for all the talk of Trump's threat to democracy, these bureaucrats manipulated three elections in a row.

Looks like we need a full review of the FBI & DOJ for all of their illegal election interference. pic.twitter.com/vj0NV5gWuE

— DOGE - Department of Government Effeciency Parody (@realdogenews) November 15, 2024

The Executive Branch has become lawless, like the Praetorian Guard of the late Roman Empire. As you may recall from your history class, the Praetorian Guard became the most powerful force in the late Roman Empire, picking emperors and extorting the state for power, money, and privilege. 

Tulsi Gabbard has to come down on these people like a ton of bricks, just as Matt Gaetz and Kash Patel have to do the same at the Justice Department. They need to be fired, stripped of their security clearances, blackballed, and when possible prosecuted. 

Maybe Tulsi can get Governor Noem to have them followed in airports as well. She knows what that is like, as she was personally persecuted by Alejandro Mayorkas. 

Mayorkas has a lot to answer for, not the least of which is perjury before Congress--something so common that every day ending in "y" he did so, it seemed. 

Given what has happened over the past 8 years, perhaps a legal saga of 8 years is the least that Trump and Vance can give them. 

The point, though, is not just revenge--although one aspect of justice is actually a modicum of revenge for wrongs done--but to put the fear of God into people who are tempted to run roughshod over the rights of Americans. 

It's not lawfare if there were serious crimes committed--and in many cases there were. It's justice, and there is a lot of justice to mete out.