What they would not do is stop processing payments to dairy farmers. And some people would no doubt start working on language to get rid of the law. What would the assembled bureaucrats do? Some courageous person would probably tell him that he would need to first change 7 U.S.C. Suppose on that visit he said that he thought dairy price supports were a bad idea and should be stopped-immediately. There would be plenty of excitement and plenty of selfies. Suppose President Trump decided to pay a spontaneous visit to the Agriculture Department. Did the president act according to the law or didn’t he? Acting according to the “letter and spirit” of the law is what differentiates a sinister, out-of-control, “deep state” from a bureaucracy that governs according to laws rather than men. Rather than arguing about process, supporters of the president will have to confront the allegations of the career officials. The impeachment vote this week will open up a new phase of the impeachment inquiry-one that will clarify the role of the deep state. It often feels like the whole rest of the government exists to say “NO.” But that’s because we are a government of laws, not a government of men and women. That is the experience of most presidencies-Democrats or Republicans-with the bureaucracy. But Vice President Al Gore, who was in charge of this initiative, did not call the bureaucrats traitors or Republican sympathizers, he simply went about the business of seeing if we could change the law or the regulation. Every week I confronted something that couldn’t be done because of a law or a regulation. As a senior White House aide in the Clinton administration I was working on reform of government. He is not the first and he won’t be the last president to be frustrated by the bureaucracy. Trump’s hostility to the bureaucracy is unusual to say the least. As his term has worn on Trump has decided that a centerpiece of his legacy will be “the destruction of the deep state.” Rather than convincing the White House that they should consult the experts in the government, this first run-in with the bureaucracy seems to have convinced Trump and his former counselor Steve Bannon that the deep state was out to get them.Įlaine Kamarck Tuesday, September 24, 2019Įver since then, the deep state has been a constant in the Trump lexicon and a constant in the right-wing press, reviled when it produces evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election but quietly accepted when it produces favorable unemployment statistics. It took several attempts and defeats in the court for Trump to finally get his executive order. Beginning with the Trump’s Januexecutive order attempting to ban immigrants from certain Muslim countries, the Trump White House has repeatedly butted heads with the bureaucrats in Washington. According to the historian Ryan Gingeras, “The concept of the deep state is used to explain why and how agents employed by the state execute policies that directly contravene the letter and spirit of the law.” In the Trump administration however, the term has confused the “spirit of the law” with the personage of the president.
The term “deep state” has its origins in Turkey.
So, what exactly is the “deep state?” Is it a conspiracy by bureaucrats to thwart President Trump, as the White House argues, or is it the actions of bureaucrats pledged not to one president but to the impartial rule of law? They are members of the permanent government sworn to carry out the law. None of the actors involved serve at the pleasure of the president.
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Vindman testified that the transcript of the now famous call between Trump and Zelensky was not full and accurate but rather had been edited to cover up the quid pro quo at the heart of the debate. Colonel Alexander Vindman, a career military officer, combat veteran, and Purple Heart recipient who was serving as the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council. The most damaging testimony came from Lt. The special forces operators were not Trump family members, they were not Trump political appointees, they were members of the military-part of the permanent government and members of a class of people Trump has repeatedly attacked as belonging to the “deep state.”Īs the week wore on, more career diplomats and professionals defied White House orders and testified before the House Intelligence committee, adding fuel to the allegation that President Trump had violated the law by conditioning aid to Ukraine on help with investigations into his political opponents.
The infamous ISIS leader was killed during a daring raid based on intelligence provided by the very Kurdish forces President Trump had turned on two weeks before when he announced American troops were withdrawing from Northern Syria.
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