Those officials are doing something in the course of their job, or are having something done to them as part of their jobs, that the cause comes down to 'workplace injury', and the Government is trying hard not to have to accept that it may be liable for millions/billions of dollars in Workers' Compensation claims.
In other words, it's not a blank check to ignore these people.
More on SSD here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/table/ch3.t31 and here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532253
Big elaborate stories in newspapers and magazines
It's like a professional disinformation campaign run by ??? to convince ??? to ???.
And it was absurd the whole time I guess
But I'm still not convinced that anything is real here except growing evidence of an extremely compliant mass media
1. Large, long-range directed energy weapon off the White House grounds that would need some advanced mechanism for aiming.
2. Smaller, shorter-range directed energy weapon that was snuck into the White House.
3. Not a malicious directed-energy weapon