Remember that time when the FBI handed out immunity agreements to Hillary Clinton aides and then deleted their hard drives containing classified materials? This is kind of like that and the inevitable coda to the case.

Yes there are ideologues in the federal government, but few of these people would be willing to put their careers on the line unless they were assured that the Dems would have their backs.

And who better to serve as test cases than Peter Strzok and Lisa Page?

When I last checked in with the lovebirds last year, they were doing pretty well.

Despite being fired from the FBI, the disgraced former agent got a book deal, “Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump” as well as co-hosting a podcast with ‘Mueller, She Wrote’s Allison Gill and scoring an adjunct professorship at Georgetown University.

Strzok and fellow agent Lisa Page, with whom he had an affair, are suing for wrongful termination from the FBI, and they’ve been fighting to depose former President Trump.

Their former boss, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe secured a settlement for his benefits including back pay from the Biden Justice Department. There’s little doubt that Attorney General Merrick Garland will eventually arrange for a settlement as a reward for Strzok and Page.

And there’s the settlement.

The Justice Department has reached its expected settlement via a tentative agreement. The timing is nigh perfect as the elections draws near and more trials approach. The messaging is pretty clear to any DOJ or FBI figures. Even if they get made examples out of, the system will step in to protect them and reward them.

So go ahead. Have fun. Go after our political enemies and we’ll take care of you.

With an anticipated Trump administration on the horizon, you can bet the message has been received in D.C.