President Donald Trump moved quickly after taking office to purge anyone connected to investigations of him from the U.S. government. Justice Department lawyers, FBI investigators, and even lower-level researchers did not escape punishment. Now former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor has a proposal: make those ousted officials the new investigators of any coming Trump probes.

Taylor, who became known as the leaker behind bombshell revelations about the first Trump administration that he said made him fear for the country's future, made the case in a recent essay, arguing that Trump's purge is set to "backfire."

One of the biggest problems, Taylor pointed out, is that a subpoena is only as useful as the person who knows how to use it. With experienced investigators pushed out, no one is currently able to handle sprawling probes. That is why he believes the starting point is hiring dozens of long-time investigators who have worked high-profile cases and weathered the personal scrutiny that can come with them.

"The old adage that 'no one is above the law' assumes that there's always someone looking," Taylor said. "But if you blindfold the people whose it is to keep their eyes peeled, then the adage becomes a cruel joke, right?"

Attention now turns to the Nov. 3 election — the midterms, when every House seat is on the ballot and the party holding the White House has historically lost ground. If angry voters turn out, Democrats are expected to take back the House, which could trigger investigations spanning government and corporate America's relationship with the Trump administration. The incoming Congress would hand the majority the committee chairs, and with them the subpoena power and staff that congressional probes run on. Over the weekend, Rolling Stone reported that Democrats are already preparing.

According to the report, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told a gathering of conservatives earlier this year that "impeachment isn't even the real concern," warning instead that "half of them in the room would be targeted." Johnson pledged to take care of his GOP colleagues, and his office is reportedly running oversight briefings for nervous Republicans, PowerPoint included.

"I'm glad they're running scared. They should be," Taylor said.

Taylor has been at work on a documentary titled "Corruptionland," which will be released online next week. Among those he has spoken with are former prosecutors and agents who served in the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section, the unit charged with prosecuting corruption by public officials, as well as FBI investigators experienced in Washington corruption cases.

"They were pushed out for doing their jobs, and almost every one of them told me some version of the same thing: if there were a serious, well-run effort to hold this administration accountable, they'd step back into the fight tomorrow," Taylor said. "Congress should take them up on it. If the opposition wins the House or the Senate, the new committee chairs should hire these investigators and put them to work. Right away."

In Taylor's view, Trump's effort to block anyone from investigating him is about to backfire — and it should start with the people who know about it from the inside. The proposal's prospects, and the shape of any probes that follow, should come into focus once the Nov. 3 results determine which party holds the gavels.