Posted on 10/14/2019 4:58:09 PM PDT by Liberty7732
We are constantly being lectured to by the media and Democrats that there is no “deep state.” That Trump and Republicans are just making up conspiracy theories to cover their own nefarious deeds.
Most people who do not imbibe only quasi-propaganda outlets such as the New York Times or CNN, understand there is a deep state, or permanent state, or some ongoing cabal of government bureaucrats that pre-date and outlast presidential administrations and have their own agenda. And they understand that agenda for three years has included getting rid of a duly elected American President.
The #resistance has included seemingly boundless denizens within the federal government. We will never know the full scale of the leakers — the primary weapon of the deep state against Trump — but we can identify dozens of people who have publicly acted, or been caught acting, in precisely a deep state sort of way.
Publicly, the resistance deep state probably starts with one of its heroes: Sally Yates.
Yates was Deputy Attorney General under Obama’s AG Loretta Lynch. When Trump was sworn into office, Lynch resigned and Yates became acting AG. When Trump signed an executive order temporarily restricting travel from a select few Middle Eastern and African countries to the United States, Yates went full resistance.
She ordered DOJ lawyers not to defend Trump’s executive order in court because she personally believed it was not consistent with the DOJ’s responsibility and questioned its lawfulness. Of course, defending it in court is what would determine its lawfulness. Yates did not hide the ball.
“For as long as I am Acting Attorney General, the Department of Justice will not present arguments in defense of the Executive Order,” she wrote. Trump fired her the same day.
Yates’ action was about more than the particular EO she didn’t like. It was a banner being waved in front of the pre-existing deep state to rally more bureaucrats to the cause. It’s important to remember that the permanent state long precedes Trump and resides on the ideological left. People throughout the George W. Bush administration decried how the State Department continuously undermined Bush policies abroad. For eight years.
In Yates’ case, she was clearly violating her oath and job description, which was to defend the executive order. If she could not, she should have resigned. She was an unelected federal hire. Not one American voted for her. But her renegade approach had the desired effect.
According to the inestimable Kimberly Strassel at the Wall Street Journal: “The Yates memo was the first official act of the internal resistance — not only a precedent but a rallying cry. Subordinates fawningly praised her in emails.”
Judicial Watch filed Freedom of Information requests and found a treasure trove of other deep staters doing that fawning through emails to Yates. One federal prosecutor called her his hero, another thanked her profusely for fighting against an unlawful president.
Perhaps the most enlightening came from Andrew Weissmann—a career DOJ lawyer and head of the Criminal Fraud Division, who wrote: “I am so proud. And in awe. Thank you so much.” Weissmann was later hired by Robert Mueller as part of the team investigating Trump-Russia collusion. Another face of the deep state.
According to a Washington Post story a few weeks after Trump’s inauguration, 180 federal employees had signed up for a workshop to learn how to “successfully express civil disobedience.” The Post’s story revealed that bureaucrats were in “regular consultation” with Obama appointees to create strategies for opposing the administration, including work slowdowns for any policies they opposed.
The story seemed meant to paint a picture of federal employees righteously standing up against an unlawful, illegitimate and dangerous president. They were heroes like Yates, and underminers secretly following her like Weissmann. But the story actually revealed the reality of the deep state and the lengths to which it would go to stop Trump.
Another identifiable deep stater is Walter Shaub, whom Obama appointed in 2013 as head of the Office of Government Ethics, an oxymoron if there ever was one. The office is simply mandated to advise and assist the presidential administration in office and is not to be confused with being a watchdog, as the name may imply. This office was perfectly situated to actually help Trump, who never held elected office before, to avoid ethical pitfalls. That was its mandate and its purpose. That’s not what Shaub did.
The Wall Street Journal’s Strassel writes of Shaub:
“…within weeks of the election, Mr. Shaub was mimicking the president-elect from an official Twitter account: “@realDonaldTrump OGE is delighted that you’ve decided to divest your businesses. Right decision!” “@realDonaldTrump Brilliant! Divestiture is good for you, very good for America!” When Mr. Trump released his plan for his assets, Mr. Shaub blasted it at a public event with press in attendance. At one point Mr. Shaub sent one of his critical missives to hundreds of government ethics officials, every inspector general, and the chairmen and ranking members of numerous congressional committees. When administration officials began to call him out on his behavior, he loudly resigned and immediately landed a job at the liberal Campaign Legal Center.”
Of course the acts of people like James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper are now legendary. But they are political appointees. The deep state is the permanent, unappointed and unelected bureaucrat class that also enjoys civil service protections that make firing them virtually impossible.
Deep staters have filed an enormous number of official internal complaints — perhaps as part of that civil disobedience training, or on the advice of the former Obama officials — in attempts to have the authority to define policies for their own fiefdoms, which is the sole prerogative of the executive. The Washington Post ran an infamous guest column by an Interior Department employee named Joel Clement titled: “I’m a Scientist. I’m Blowing the Whistle on the Trump Administration.”
His beef was that Trump policy was endangering some native populations in Alaska. How? Climate change. A scientist blowing the whistle! There was no merit, nor did he have standing. But, as we have seen repeatedly, it allowed eight Senate Democrats to demand an IG investigation and that, certainly, was part of the purpose, along with publicly damaging Trump.
The pattern is pretty clear in that Clement is now a senior fellow with the activist, leftist Union of Concerned Scientists.
Of course we see these patterns repeating themselves right up to the “whistleblower” on the Ukrainian phone call, but instead of IG investigations or a special counsel, we now have impeachment proceedings, or something. It’s not really clear.
Everything Trump did, from meetings, to internal memos to private phone calls with heads of state, were leaked to an eager media accurately or inaccurately.
One study by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs found that in just the first 18 weeks in office in 2017, the Trump administration “faced 125 leaked stories — one leak a day — containing information that is potentially damaging to national security under the standards laid out in a 2009 Executive Order signed by President Barack Obama.”
The report summarized it this way: “Under President Trump’s predecessors, leaks of national security information were relatively rare, even with America’s vibrant free press. Under President Trump, leaks are flowing at the rate of one a day.”
About 100 of the 125 dealt with Trump-Russia collusion, and the majority of those contained classified information. Which means not only were they potentially damaging to national security, they were felonies. By the time of this writing, the number of leaks must be north of 1,000 — too many for the Senate committee to even try to study. That is a lot of felonies committed by the deep state.
Virtually all of those leakers remain unknown to the public and are likely still toiling away in the bowels of the deep state, ready to leak and otherwise undermine President Trump and the security of the nation in any possible way.
The deep state is real, and provably so. They are protected and acting in concert with each other and with Democrat lawyers and lawmakers. Re-electing President Trump is one of the greatest bulwarks against this continuing. If it works, it will become enshrined in D.C.
To be part of the deep state is to be part of the losing side.
Why would anyone choose to be on the losing side?
As I just posted on another thread, the deep state (progressivism) is so weak that it must by necessity cheat and lie as often as possible.
If progressivism had any value, and if the deep state had any strength (as defined by one of their icons, Nietzsche), it would offer the freedom to be morally upright and speak the truth.
This is a very good connect-the-dots article. From a website I had not seen before. Thanks for posting.
It seems the strategy is to lie, for the purpose of giving democrats a reason to impeach Trump openly in Congress. When one attempt fails, they come up with another lie. No one is held accountable. The ultimate goal is the dismantlement of American democracy and replacing it with a globalist imitation that still gives the illusion of democracy.
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It’s not just America, though right now we appear to be on the forefront: There are TONS more cases here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state. And Boris Johnson had his Deep State issues run nice and tidy in Forbes, to boot.
Funny enough, “Deep State” is Turkish in origin: “The modern concept of a deep state is associated with Turkey, and the secret network established in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.” Go figure.
The only way I can see to even make a dent in this conspiracy — and that’s what it is, by definition — is for accountability to occur. But how do you remove decade after decade of entrenchment where lies are their statecraft, to even approach that?
This analysis is wrong from start to finish. The deepstate isn't about ideology. It is about the money. It's about seeing how much taxpayer money we can metabolize and turn into swamp ooze. It's about small jobs and big jobs and the best jobs - jobs doing nothing that pays gazillions (for which you have to run a private foundation or local support service contracting company or something and be real good friends with some favorite politician).
Remember Paul Ryan - you think he was a leftist? He said he was a conservative - while he picked our pockets clean and did nothing.
State focused on the real target - YOU and your wallet. Sure they want your life and liberty but only to get at your money.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ !
Good ones
The real problem in our nation is a politicized judiciary that makes political decisions rather than constitutional decisions based on the constitution. As such they become advocates of political bias instead of advocates of our sacred constitution.
I have no problem with Ruth Ginsberg’s personal extreme liberal beliefs. However she is sworn to defend the constitution as written. She has written and defended decisions that she full well knows are outside of the constitution. She is an activist judge that has zero respect for our constitution. She abhors our constitution as written by our forefathers.
To paraphrase the late and great Anthony Scalia, the only problem with a “living constitution is it will destroy the constitution.” Our brilliant authors of our constitution realized it must be written in stone. They also realized they could not see all possibilities in the future thus made the ability to amend the constitution with great difficulty via amendment. This has worked well for our nation.
Judicial activist just make rulings much outside of constitutional law. They are a mortal threat to our constitution and rule of constitutional law.
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The Constitution of Venezuela pre Chavez was based on the Constitution of the United States with one fatal flaw. It did not have the second amendment. Today Venezuela is a hell hole of violence, corruption, economic collapse and misery for its people including hunger. Yet liberals in our nation want to take our lawful weapons. They want to take them because they fear a lawful citizen that is armed. Take our weapons and we become Venezuela in 20 years just as happened there. I lived in Venezuela pre Chavez and it was great but corrupt. The corruption was no greater than our nation today. The corruption made the people vote for Chavez whom promised to stop this and help the people. He actually won the first election and all elections since for he and Maduro were stolen elections.
This could happen here in my nation.
Bttt.
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That’s exactly my point.
The hope offered in riches quickly drifts away like a wisp of smoke, and you’re left with bonds of misery in a prison of loneliness.
Very scary that it can happen here and IS happening here with this secretive Kangaroo Courtimpeachment business.
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