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If you take orders from someone, they are effectively higher up from you even if they don't appear on your org chart. Similarly if in a crisis you wouldn't take orders from someone, they aren't your leader even if their title says they are. You're otherwise spot on.
Let me phrase it like this: if they occasionally have to come up with some convictions to justify their paychecks, why would they give up on an easy one unless there were other considerations? You don't have to assume conscientiousness. Laziness produces the same question.
Do they have to come up with convictions to justify their paychecks? Not getting convictions would justify them just as well if their threat was "if you replace us, the replacements might actually prosecute criminals"
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