Former Obama Officials,Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign Against Flynn To Protect Iran Nuclear Deal

thegatewaypundit ^ | Ryan Saavedra

[Truth29]

Just how much of the government does Trump really control? There is a thin layer at the top, but if the mass of the midlevels is dominated by Obama appointees and the intelligence agencies are targeting Trump and his appointees, we are going to need far more immediately aggressive actions to stop the leaks and attacks. There should be wholesale removals and or reassignments; actions that disrupt the existing bureaucratic lines of communications and plans. Every Obama political appointee should already have been fired (they haven't). Trump is also getting surrounded by establishment Republicans. They are not likely taking dramatic action and their loyalty is questionable.

[Dick Bachert]

During the Nixon Administration, arch conservative, presidential candidate and founder of the Conservative Caucus Howard Phillips headed two federal agencies, ending his executive branch career as director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for five months in 1973, a position from which he resigned when Nixon reneged on his commitment to veto further funding for Great Society programs begun in the Johnson Administration.

Nixon’s appointment of Phillips as Director of OEO in January 1973 touched off a national controversy culminating in a court case in the US District Court in The District of Columbia (Williams v. Phillips, 482 F.2d 669) challenging the legality of Phillips’ appointment.
(The above two paragraphs from Wikipedia don’t tell the full story.)

Phillips went to the OEO with the intention of DISMANTLING at least that much of Johnson’s Great Society socialist agenda. That MAY have been why Nixon put the outspoken conservative in the slot as a feeler for how far he might go toward paring down the bureaucracy Johnson had ballooned to new and higher levels. We will never know. The bureaucrats at OEO knew what Howard was up to when this conservative firebrand was appointed and filed the lawsuit referenced above. Not content to wait for the court to render a decision, a delegation of OEO bureaucrats made it clear to Nixon that he would have “problems” if he allowed Phillips to remain and continue to pursue his take-down of the agency.

Nixon caved and dismissed Howard, allowing him to save face by presenting his departure as a voluntary act.

Which brings us to the mess currently developing for Donald Trump!

Since the Nixon Administration the “Deep State” bureaucracy has grown in size and clout by orders of magnitude. What we are now witnessing in Washington today is just the beginning of a full-on assault on Trump’s expressed goal of CUTTING THE BUREAUCRACY with the Beltway apparatchiks in full cry and fury in their efforts to frustrate his plan. That they are putting that effort AHEAD of the security of the nation seems to be of no concern to most of them.

Let me wrap this by reminding you that the PRIME DIRECTIVE of nearly every bureaucracy in history has been to expand its SIZE and POWER. Because most of them are not merit based, the way to move up is to continue to load the bottom with new people. That’s the size component. And the power part will be completely understood by anyone who has had an “experience” with the EPA, DOE, IRS, etc.

President Trump and those of us who support him are in for the ride of our lives. And HE is probably already asking himself “What in the hell is wrong with me? Why did I DO this?”

He did this because he loves this country and was deeply concerned with our direction.

We out here in “Flyover Country” should be equally concerned that his sentiment is not shared by the entrenched apparatchiks in the “Deep State”.

Buckle up!

[rod1]

Ben Rhodes and Jarret need to be evicted from those cushy totally inappropriate DC positions Obama appointed them to just before he left office.

[Gay State Conservative]

Very,very easily believed.Although many here have mistaken amorality for stupidity and,thus,believe our Former Community Organizer-In-Chief to be stupid he has learned much from the works of Saul Alinsky and from sitting at Bill Ayers’s knee.

[Twinkie]

The damned Muzzie, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, enriches and
protects IRAN. MAGA!

[WildHighlander57]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3524895/posts#comment

Ping!

0 minions at root of things...

[sarasota]

Obama and his minions and of course his puppeteer, Soros, will continue this mean spirited attacks on the Trump Administration. I don’t think Trump had any idea what he really meant when he said drain the swamp. These are politicians, not businessman. There is a world of difference.

[SE Mom]

It’s the never-ending story, isn’t it...decades of it. It’s putrid, it’s dark, and the deception is profound.

I wish Vince Flynn were still alive...he’d have a helluva book to write.

The deep state is determined. They often prevail.

Perilous time we’re in...

[ameribbean expat]

So reveal the details of the deal already. If that’s what the opposition is protecting, get it out in front of the public.

[Salvation]

Jarrett?

[DoughtyOne]

Any of them they can make a case against. Sure...

[Rumplemeyer]

General Flynn was the bait and they took it, now the fun begins.

When Ben Rhoads is now the face of the leaks and the pressure will now begin being applied, soon Ben will be singing like Willie Nelson at NRG Stadium.

Let the games begin...

[right way right]

Yup. Dems will be getting more than they are bargaining for.

[Truth29]

"So reveal the details of the deal already. If that’s what the opposition is protecting, get it out in front of the public."

Yes, and it can be done quickly and simply unless the Obama moles refuse to let Trump have it and, then we would have a whole different problem.

[henbane]

The Free Beacon has been on this criminal activity for weeks.

BEN RHODES

Obama Allies Working to Undermine Trump’s National Security Team
Behind-the-scenes move to hamstring Trump national security apparatus

There is evidence Obama's outgoing administration took steps to complicate and delay the building of Trump's new team, according to one veteran foreign policy insider who has been in close contact with Trumps' national security transition team.

"Something strange is going on," the source, who is not authorized to speak on the record, said. "The Trump folks keep loading up accounts and looking at specific jobs, and they're not finding anything like what should be there. It's like the Obama national security team went out of their way to cripple the transition on the way out."

A senior congressional aide familiar with the efforts to hold up Pompeo's confirmation vote told the Free Beacon that Democrats are playing politics with America's national security.

(January 21, 2017) http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-allies-working-undermine-trumps-national-security-team/

[LucyT]

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Ping to Article.

It's late, but:

[danamco]

Where is the “Drain the Swamp” here ???