These observations about the corrupt nature of the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the U.S. Department of Justice are valid, irrespective of the final outcome of the Hanssen case. Second, no organization, including a government organization, can be entirely free from this sort of problem. These two points having been stated, the overriding reality is that, from its inception, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been a servant, a lackey of certain banking interests, with a strong pro-Confederate bias, which has functioned as a political police, deployed against the American people, and specifically to crush the American intellectual tradition. Because of the historical and current lack of moral character of the FBI as an institution, the idea of loyalty to the Bureau has no moral foundation. This set of facts should remain in the forefront, not the details of the Hanssen espionage case.
Spies happen, traitors happen.
Lacking moral principle, all that the FBI and Department of Justice can demand today is loyalty to the institution. As the Hanssen case emphasizes, once again, those methods are fatally flawed.