There Are No Rules In The Deep State Civil War

A whole war is likely waging behind the scenes:

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News on Friday that his investigators have already uncovered evidence of “abuse” in the U.S. government’s surveillance practices.

“I believe there’s evidence that abuses have occurred,” Nunes said in his first interview since the House Ethics Committee dismissed allegations he had wrongly released classified information as part of the panel’s Russia investigation.

“We have had an ongoing investigation into DOJ [Department of Justice] and FBI since mid-summer for both FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] abuse and other matters that we can’t get into too much. But it is very concerning.”

I will bet that Trump is waging a much more aggressive war against the Deep State than any of us would believe. That worries me, because a lot of bad dudes have a lot of power at their disposal, and an absolute need to make sure none of it is ever uncovered.

I think we are at a weird place, in between a highly rule-governed, high-trust society, and a totally rule-less, no-trust society. As a result, governmental operation with society is totally rule-less in private, with a thin veneer of rule-governed appearance laid over it, which means the best defense is to play the same game. Case in point, is the investigation of Michael Flynn:

Significantly, the fatal damage done to Mueller’s anti-Trump investigation does not only rest in the fact that defense counsel will be able to conduct an unlubricated prostate examination on the FBI’s key agent at trial. Instead, the real reason why Mueller will not risk a criminal trial is the lasting damage that would be done to the FBI’s reputation by having Strzok’s baggage brought into the daylight.

To expose the agent’s biases, defense counsel would have the opportunity to cross-examine the agent and his apparent mistress, an FBI lawyer who also worked on Mueller’s investigation and the Clinton email probe, about their exchanged messages showing support for Clinton and hostility to Trump. Additionally, the agent’s wife, a high-profile attorney at another federal agency, apparently was a member of several pro-Obama and pro-Clinton Facebook groups and is a follower of a Facebook page called “We Voted for Hillary.”

The case against Flynn was probably fueled by reams of covertly gathered intelligence, some gathered under semi-legitimate, or at least sufficiently legal means, and other intelligence gathered under wholly illegal means.

Notice that the case against Flynn, a pro being targeted by an intelligence machine, doesn’t revolve around facts, or evidence, or crimes. On the one side, it was generated based on illegal wiretaps acquired using a phony dossier, that then led to an impromptu meeting conducted under false pretenses to catch Flynn in a false statement as he thought he was helping national security. It was all a plan, begun with a goal to convict him, and then constructed, step by step, to achieve it.

On Flynn’s side, the motivations are more murky. He had to know his opposition’s play. I suspect he could have blackmailed his way out of it. He had to know everything he had done was documented by various agencies, and any incorrect statement would back him in a corner. And at the least he should have known to never talk to a Federal agent without a lawyer present, especially as he took on the machine. You suspect that he is playing his own game.

But now, if he were to fight this, his defense would have nothing to do with facts or evidence, or even crime. His best defense is to expose the illegalities of the agency which has targeted him, to blackmail them into submission. He can probe the origins and the extent of the surveillance that targeted him, find embarrassing information about the agency which ran the investigation, or threaten to give an interview and expose things he knows that the government wouldn’t want exposed.

This, like r/K, is a spectrum. For now, the thin veneer of legitimacy means most intelligence gathered ends up being shelved since it can’t be used in the system if legitimacy is to be maintained. Those like Flynn who do get targeted can find leverage to resist based on everyone’s desire to maintain the façade as well. But as we progress along the spectrum in the direction we are going, at some point the thin veneer will give way, and at that point people will be shocked at how the game is played, and how it was being played all along.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because the rules don’t apply anymore

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Robert What?
6 years ago

Do Deep State operatives trust each other?

infowarrior1
6 years ago

For the 1st time the Pentagon is going to undergo an Audit:
https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1391471/officials-announce-first-dod-wide-audit-call-for-budget-certainty/

Alot of bureaucratic bloat to be trimmed.

Jeff Wood
Jeff Wood
6 years ago

AC, a commentress at Vox Day’s joint just reported you were on the radio, presumably US radio. Any link to a possible recording?

everlastingphelps
everlastingphelps
6 years ago

Something just occurred to me. They thought that Strzok was safe because that was how the game was always played. You couldn’t go after an agent like that without damaging the reputation of the FBI, and control of the FBI was the prize. It’s like blowing up a safe — you have to be careful not to blow up the money inside. The FBI was always insulated from its wrongdoing because the people going after it wanted to ultimately control it themselves.

That isn’t Trump’s game. Blowing up the safe is the ends. He doesn’t care about the money inside. He has the money. He just wants the safe out of the way.

Pitcrew
Pitcrew
6 years ago

Don’t Corporate and Legal guys realize that you make more money by not getting in the way of the Trump train? You can’t make money if you’re dead or its WWIII. This is kind of like Mafia wars, sometimes its better to just walk away. Why do all that work in your life, make all kinds of mad money, and get plugged in the back of the head or get your throat opened, or wind up in the pokey? Then what’s the point? The deep state and the left has to know that their only winning move is not to play. Just walk away, just walk away.