Best you can get is them having to flee to Argentina if the general population finally awakens, but there's a good chance that might never happen. However, it is more likely, that they can form their own network states on the remains of the USA, while watching Russia and China trying to grab as much land as possible from a safe distance.

Sort of like how IBM was a part of the Nuremberg trials? Oh wait they helped translate the trials, they weren’t on trial.