@gogoedward:
Then at the end of the arc he's found by Buster Call people all on the groud and in pain, and all he can say is that the Strawhats escaped.
And while a major demotion would be a great way to end things with him, I don't see why he would get demoted. He was doing his job, he never did anything against the government, in fact from the government's point of view it was the Strawhats doing all the damage even though Spandam was the real villain.
There is just a little matter of 10,000 EL personnel that heard Spandam "accidental” broadcast where be basically said he was sacrificing them for his promotion, to get hold of the greatest weapon. If they still trusted their "Chief" Spandam, they would not be evacuating EL. You cant easily cover up this kind of misconduct.
We have been shown WG has bad sides but it can't be all of it, and a lot of things are kept secret from the mid and lower ranks. I doubt Smoker, or T-Bone with their type "Justice" would stand by knowing full extent of how Spandam runs CP9. Not to mention Spandam willing to sacrifice 10K WG and Marine troops, or that little attack on the judicial ship 8 years back to setup Tom. Civilian and government personnel were killed in that incident if I am not mistaken. I would not be surprised if Akoji, after all that happened, deny the fact that he authorized Spandam the use of Buster Call.
Spandam is a certifiable nutcase, but in my view the real EVIL guy(s) is whomever put him in charge of CP9. I doubt Spandam chooses by himself targets his assassination squad hits, he must receive orders from higher up. If those above CP9 do care about collateral damage, then they are not doing the proper oversight of CP9. If they don’t care about innocent casualties, than they definitely will care about RESULTS. Spandam has been on the Pluton Case for 8 Years, right now he had Franky, Robin and the Plans to Pluton, Spandam lost it all along with invasion and devastation of EL and the Buster Call mess. Assassination of Iceburg at W7 failed and exposed, will W7 and Iceburg still build ships for WG after that?. Well you can’t call that "positive" development. At the very least Spandam should get fired. That is preferably all after he gets what is overdue from Franky and Strawhats. (Do you think breaking every single bone in his body and then ripping off his arms is asking too much?)