I think Lin believes this awful truth must be revealed so that the people being blackmailed can be dealt with appropriately and the blackmailers can be as well. Neutralizing the blackmail syndicate is the only way we can get back to any semblance of an honest government, if it's possible at all at this point.

So, yeah. And it's a correct assumption. Unless the avenues of blackmail are neutralized we will never have a functional govt body again. The blackmailing is worse than the lobbying which is also horribly interfering with us having any semblance of a functional govt.