Deep State

For John, BLUF:  As a Registered Republican I am embarrassed that this was written by a presumed fellow GOPer.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Glenn Greenwald:  White House ‘Coward’ Behind Anonymous Op-ed Part of ‘Unelected Cabal’

From Breitbart, by Mr Joshua Caplin, 5 September 2018.

Here is the lede plus three:

The Intercept co-founder and Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald on Wednesday evening lambasted the senior White House official – who admitted in an anonymously written opinion-editorial to subverting President Donald Trump’s America First agenda – as an un-self-aware “coward,” part of an “unelected cabal.”

In a striking act of betrayal, a senior Trump administration official wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times claiming to be part of a group of people “working diligently from within” to impede President Trump’s “worst inclinations” and ill-conceived parts of his agenda.

The alleged White House official, claiming to be part of the “resistance” to President Trump, wrote, “Many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.”

Reacting to the op-ed, Greenwald tweeted that it focused largely on decrying President Trump’s deviation from establishment Republican orthodoxy, pointing out that it’s an “ideology he didn’t campaign on & that voters didn’t ratify.”

Later the article has this:

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called on the author to “do the right thing and resign” from his or her post.  “The individual behind this piece has chosen to deceive, rather than support, the duly elected President of the United States. He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people.

The idea of doing the right thing and resigning seems foreign to creatures of the District of Columbia.  I give you the Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

We do owe The Old Gray Lady a vote of thanks for exposing the Deep State to public view.  However, NYT Editor Banquet forgot the "First Rule of Deep State:  You do not talk about Deep State."

UPDATE:  Added the tag "Character" for this post.

Hat tip to the Drudge Report.

Regards  —  Cliff