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The US justice system goes soft on fascism. Always has, from operation paperclip to across the board leinency for j6 convictions. Hope this clears things up.
While I agree with the rest of your comment, and Comey waiting until after the election to let certain things be known is fucked, but this isn't any federal organization in the US, this is basically a memo from a bunch of legal and civil groups worldwide saying 'we think Biden is enabling genocide' or at least didn't prevent it. Aside from that...
Operation paperclip wasn't a 'lets go get some of the hardest hardcore Nazis we can because Nazis, fuck yeah!', it was because they were some of the best minds in engineering, science, and technology. This was right after the US had shown the world the bomb. So they had focused their energy on making a megaweapon, and next was likely seeing what else they could achieve with the knowledge gained from it, with new minds. Propulsion, time travel, advanced small weaponry, gravity manipulation, It's not often you get to go steal over a thousand of the best minds from a very intelligent now-former superpower. I'm sure it was a free-for-all of ideas with them being mostly not workable, and many came to fruition and were used to advance other technologies, and some we're keeping secret for when we really need them. I don't speak on this with authority, only common sense.
There were over 1,600 people taken in OP paperclip. Many, but not all, were former members and some former leaders of the Nazi party.