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4. No, they aren't. Cordo is going against Jimmy's wishes. Jimmy's wishes were:

Ironwood: By this time next week, the Kingdom of Atlas will be officially closing its borders. No one in; no one out. Without the council's permission.

Cordo however wasn't following those wishes:

Cordovin: If Miss Schnee has truly come to her senses and wishes to return to her family, then, of course, the Atlas military will escort her home. But the kingdom will not be responsible for her "friends" of... questionable character.

Except that is contrary to what Ironwood ordered. Did she contact the council by letter in the span of 10 seconds? Did she magically get their approval via telepathy?

So no, they aren't disobeying Jimmy. They're disobeying Cordo's abuse of authority due to having no choice. If they listened to Cordo, they'd never get to Atlas, cause even if Ironwood would let them if he knew they had a relic, Cordo wouldn't.

A better analogy in this case would be a manager asking his receptionist to mail something important out, and the person in charge of the mail room refusing to do anything to it aside from put it in the garbage thinking there was no point in mailing it.

So again, its not hypocrisy. To turn it into hypocrisy requires mental gymnastics.