Michael Flynn made
a lot of enemies inside the government during his career. When he exposed
himself as vulnerable these pounced. How?? Anonymous and possibly illegal leaks
of private conversations with a foreign national. Now, we aren't supposed to
spy on Americans without probable cause, nor disclose the results of our spying
in the pages of the Washington
Post because it suits a
partisan or personal agenda (overturning the results of an election).
Current and former
national security officials used their position, their sources, and their
methods to destroy a political enemy. Why aren’t all Americans upset by this?
Mr. Flynn is not the only recent occurrence of such. The New York Times reports
that civil servants at the EPA lobbied Congress to reject Donald Trump's
nominee to run the agency because Pruitt was critical of the way the
EPA was run during the Obama years. Traditionally, civil servants follow the
direction of the political appointees who serve as representatives for the
elected president.
Where in the
Constitution does it say that the decisions of government employees are to
be unquestioned and retained forever? This is unprecedented. Legislative barriers
and combative journalists are part and parcel of a constitutional democracy,
but where in the founding documents it written that bureaucrats have the right
not to be questioned, opposed, reversed or fired, requiring only a leak to a
NYT reporter?
So in effect we
have the system of government outlined in the U.S. Constitution—its checks, its
balances, its separation of power, its protection of individual rights. Donald
Trump was elected to serve four years as the chief executive of this system. Like
it or not.
And then we have the so called deep-state, an element not addressed by the
Founders, the permanent government, the administrative state, which functions
as unelected judges with lifetime appointments who think they know more
about America's national security than the man elected as commander in chief.
The two systems in unprecedented fashion now compete with each other not
over policy, but over the freedoms of an elite class. Donald Trump did not
cause the separation between government of, by, and for the people and
government, of, by, and for the deep-state. He forced the “swamp,” i.e., the D.C. establishment to deal
with the fact that they are opposed by about half the U.S. In response, the
administrative state was radicalized to the point where they are readily accepting,
even cheering on, the existence of a "deep state" beyond the control
of the people and elected officials…. OREMUS.
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