Reply #354: Bollocks. You're wrong and here's why.

[LittleBlue]

The employees are not being sued individually, it's the government and corporations. People cannot be sued for performing their function, only the government and businesses can. If they exceed their function, or are performing criminal acts, that is a separate criminal trial, this is civil. Suing an individual who works for the government is pointless because they cannot pay the damages required anyway.

They are not "protecting their clients", they are protecting their own asses from wrongdoing.

The employees are not being sued here, thus invalidating your OP.

On top of this, it is a President's prerogative to settle court cases against his ministries as he sees fit. If he wishes to settle (which would be the moral, upstanding thing to do) out of court, then again that's not wrongful interference. It's simply his policy, and he may do so at his pleasure.