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2019-10-09 Home Front: Politix

NYT Columnist: Yes, There's a Deep State and It's Full of People Doing Important Work to Restrain Trump

[Townhall] New York Times columnist James Stewart is out with a new book about the "deep state." Its content is much different from other books on the topic, most of which condemn politically motivated government bureaucrats. Instead, it celebrates a federal bureaucracy dedicated to halting or slowing down President Trump's agenda.

During an interview with the Today Show, Stewart said he interviewed fired FBI Director James Comey and argued the deep state is an important group of people "dedicated to the constitution."

"You meet these characters in my book and the fact is, in a sense, he’s right. There is a deep state. There is a bureaucracy in our country who has pledged to respect the constitution, respect the rule of law. They do not work for the President, they work for the American people," Stewart said. "And as Comey told me in my book, thank goodness for that because they are protecting the constitution and the people when individuals...they restrain them from crossing the boundaries of all."

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-09 00:23|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 "They do not work for the President, they work for ~~the~~ some of the American people, you know, the right people. :

FIFY

Way past time to suspend the Civil Service Act.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-09 01:56|| 2019-10-09 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Way past time to suspend the Civil Service Act.

Likelihood of success?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-09 02:02|| 2019-10-09 02:02|| Front Page Top

#3 The current DoJ investigations are rapidly approaching the point or level of discovery I thought possible. I now fear for the Orange Man and key DoJ investigatory personnel.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-09 02:09|| 2019-10-09 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Me, I worry about something else.
It's believed that J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed politicians. It's likely that his successors continued the tradition. Can we be sure that they don't have enough "kompromat" on enough R-senators to assure impeachment?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-09 02:25|| 2019-10-09 02:25|| Front Page Top

#5 This is getting out of control.

James B. Stewart is too smart to buy into this bullshit.
That he's fallen for it suggests that lots of otherwise intelligent and fair-minded people have simply lost their good sense when it comes to Orange Man Bad.

Very disturbing.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-09 02:31|| 2019-10-09 02:31|| Front Page Top

#6 They do not work for the President, they work for the American people,

Hey - why doesn't a Federal employee look out the window in the morning? So he has something to do in the afternoon!

Fire 1/3 of all Federal employees, save the military.

Posted by Raj 2019-10-09 08:28|| 2019-10-09 08:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Fire 1/3 of all Federal employees, save the military. Posted by: Raj 2019-10-09 08:28

In the second term.

Posted by ruotnelav 2019-10-09 09:27|| 2019-10-09 09:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Years ago a worked for a boss who worked for the vice-president of a large manufacturing company. I was privy to a conversation at the time by the VP of the division with my boss.
The VP popped in and said "He's gone or at least he will be in 5 minutes." IMO, that ought to be an option available to Trump as well to clean out the seditious weasels in the Deep State.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-10-09 11:20|| 2019-10-09 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Sack Them all
Jail Them All
Strip Them All of American citizenship
Dump them all abroad.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-10-09 11:26|| 2019-10-09 11:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Not unique to the Feds:

John XXIII: In reply to a reporter who asked, "How many people work in the Vatican?", he reportedly said: "About half of them."

Posted by james 2019-10-09 23:10|| 2019-10-09 23:10|| Front Page Top

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