The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> is taking steps to reinforce job protections for bureaucrats as Trump pledges to gut the administrative state if he is reelected in November.
The plan from the Biden administration, which Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/04/biden-moves-to-defang-political-assaults-on-federal-workforce-00150446">reported</a> is almost finished as of Thursday, would make it harder for presidents to remove civil service protections from federal bureaucrats, thus making them more difficult to fire.
Biden’s new policy appears to be a response to former President Trump’s plan to gut the administrative state if he is reelected, in part by reimplementing Schedule F, an executive order that would strip civil service protections from some bureaucrats. Biden’s plan to strengthen job protections for bureaucrats comes as the Democrat president has embedded diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as well as far-Left gender ideology throughout the federal government.
Under the new plan, implemented by the Office of Personnel Management, bureaucrats whose jobs have civil service protections would not lose those protections upon their roles being reclassified, though those who believed their protections could be at risk would be able to submit an appeal with the independent Merit Systems Protection Board. A future president would also have to clear a number of procedural barriers in order to reclassify existing personnel roles into categories that do not enjoy civil service protections.
Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Jason Miller celebrated the new rule, calling bureaucrats “the backbone of our federal government” in a statement. “President Biden has made strengthening and empowering the federal workforce a top priority from his very first day in office,” Miller remarked. “He knows that career civil servants are the backbone of our federal government, providing the expertise and experience necessary for our democracy to function.”
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But the Biden administration has leveraged the federal workforce in the service of ideological ends, issuing executive orders directing the bureaucracy to embrace the DEI agenda and embed it throughout its practices. The National Security Agency, for example, produced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">DEI glossary</a>, exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, that included terms like “white fragility,” “queer theory,” “settler colonialism,” and the gender-neutral pronouns “ze” and “zir.”
Even the United States’ top intelligence authority, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), has been captured by far-Left ideologues. A newsletter sent by ODNI to the entire Intelligence Community, including intelligence components within each branch of the military, as well as the FBI, CIA, and NSA, urged agents to avoid using <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism">“hurtful” language</a> when discussing Islamic terrorism. It even included an article from an anonymous intelligence official who claimed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">crossdressing</a> makes him a better intelligence agent.
As Biden strengthens civil service protections, former President Donald Trump and his allies are preparing to gut the federal bureaucracy, a plan that will likely be made more difficult by Biden’s new rule. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Others are preparing to fill in the gap left by outgoing officials, assembling a personnel database of those who might serve in the next administration through the <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> Presidential Transition Project, an initiative from the Heritage Foundation that seeks to “pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> has declared that not only is the &#8220;Deep State&#8221; real, it &#8220;is actually kind of awesome.&#8221;
When former President Trump was in the White House, Republican complaints about a &#8220;deep state&#8221; — entrenched unelected bureaucrats and federal government employees who were actively working to undermine Trump&#8217;s agenda — were dismissed as conspiracy theories. But as the 2024 presidential race shapes up to be a rematch of the 2020 election, the NYT has acknowledged — and praised — the &#8220;deep state&#8217;s&#8221; existence.
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ladies and gentlemen, the new york times <a href="https://t.co/aXZWyG8oui">pic.twitter.com/aXZWyG8oui</a>
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The video opinion piece, produced by Adam Westbrook and Lindsay Crouse, began with a series of clips of former President Trump promising to dismantle the &#8220;deep state&#8221; if reelected. The pair followed with a series of comments from federal government employees whom they suggested were a part of the &#8220;deep state&#8221; and therefore at risk if Trump were reelected.
&#8220;As we met the Americans who are being dismissed as public enemies, we discovered that they are … us. They like Taylor Swift. They dance bachata. They go to bed at night watching &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; reruns. They go to work and do their jobs: saving us from Armageddon,&#8221; Westbrook and Crouse wrote in the description of their video.
&#8220;When we hear &#8216;deep state,&#8217; instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us. These are the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better,&#8221; they concluded.
What Westbrook and Crouse did not address is the fact that when Trump and his allies talked about the &#8220;<a href="https://www.govexec.com/feature/gov-exec-deconstructing-deep-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deep state</a>,&#8221; they was specifically addressing federal government employees and unelected bureaucrats who were actively working against him and his agenda while he was in office. The so-called &#8220;deep state&#8221; actors interviewed for the NYT opinion piece were simply federal government employees.

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Not Parody: NYT Declares The ‘Deep State’ Is Not Only Real, But ‘Kind Of Awesome’

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Trump Campaign Holds Caucus Night Watch Party

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Welcome to the Creep State, where the Deep State springs into action at the behest of the creeps of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a>.
The latest evidence we&#8217;re living in a totalitarian regime can be found in the SEC&#8217;s announcement today that they are investigating Elon Musk&#8217;s purchase of Twitter — now known as X. They&#8217;re even taking him to court to get him to testify. The lawsuit came almost a year after President Joe Biden (creeper-in-chief) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-all-knew-bidens-goons-would-target-elon-musk-the-president-telegraphed-it-last-november" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the business move was &#8220;worth being looked at&#8221; and declined to say if he thought that Musk was a national security threat.
When asked how he would do that, Biden ominously chuckled, &#8220;There’s a lot of ways.&#8221;
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BIDEN: I think that Elon Musk&#39;s cooperation and or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at. Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate — I&#39;m not suggesting that — I&#39;m suggesting that it&#39;s worth being looked at. But that&#39;s all I&#39;ll say. <a href="https://t.co/I11l87M5FQ">pic.twitter.com/I11l87M5FQ</a>
&mdash; JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1590469847640526849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Well, now, multiple government agencies have opened probes or lawsuits into Musk and his many businesses. On Thursday, CNBC reported that the SEC has sued Musk in &#8220;an effort to compel the billionaire to testify over his purchase of Twitter last year.&#8221;
Musk reportedly failed to show up for testimony on <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/05/sec-sues-to-force-musk-to-testify-in-twitter-probe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 15</a> after being served a subpoena in May 2023, per the media outlet.
“Musk’s ongoing refusal to comply with the SEC’s administrative subpoena is hindering and delaying the SEC staff’s investigation to determine whether violations of the federal securities laws have occurred,” the attorneys wrote in the complaint. “Accordingly, the SEC now asks the Court to compel Musk to appear for investigative testimony.&#8221;
What&#8217;s Musk&#8217;s crime? Well, on paper it&#8217;s hard to say. The SEC is just asking questions.
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In reality, it appears he committed the unforgivable sin of going against the Left and exposing the corruption between the federal government and Twitter to censor Americans. After purchasing Twitter, he embarrassed and weakened the government&#8217;s ability to control the people. He supported free speech and refused to bow to tyrants.
He does things like shoot guns, criticize the FBI, praise Tucker Carlson&#8217;s interviews, reject radical gender ideology, and has a sense of humor. More egregiously — to Biden and his ilk in The Swamp — he doesn&#8217;t go along with the latest Forever War in Ukraine. He puts Americans first.
All of that, and more, is why the Left hates him.
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-all-knew-bidens-goons-would-target-elon-musk-the-president-telegraphed-it-last-november" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telegraphed</a> that Musk would be investigated. Now, it&#8217;s happening. Nobody should be surprised at what The Creep State will do.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Creep State: SEC Investigates Elon Musk’s Twitter Purchase After Biden Said It Was ‘Worth Being Looked At’

Creep State: SEC Investigates Elon Musk's Twitter Purchase After Biden Said It Was 'Worth Being Looked At'

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President Donald J. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-loses-it-again-trump-gets-2-scoops-ice-cream-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">couldn&#8217;t even get a second scoop of ice cream</a> without legacy media and anonymous sources going into hysterics, but now the Deep State is trying to convince the American people that Chinese spy balloons flew overhead during the Trump administration on several occasions — without the public so much as hearing a peep about the incident from government leaders.
As if that wasn&#8217;t insulting enough, the running defense of the Biden administration&#8217;s incompetence over the most recent Chinese spy balloon is that the international embarrassment is all Trump&#8217;s fault.
When Americans heard there was a gigantic inflatable surveillance device high above Montana, the most common reaction was, &#8220;Why hasn&#8217;t it been shot down yet?&#8221; Deep State officials told lapdog media that similar scenarios played out under Trump, and no action was taken, thus setting the precedent for President Joe Biden.
&#8220;It has happened a handful of other times over the past few years, to include before this administration,&#8221; an official <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/03/chinese-balloon-aerial-surveillance-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Post on Friday.
In turn, numerous Trump officials <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/05/trump-denies-any-chinese-spy-balloons-under-his-watch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rushed</a> to defend the previous president.
Former Acting Director of the United States National Intelligence Ric Grenell, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and more all came out and said it never happened. 
Even former National Security Advisor John Bolton — who by all accounts detests Trump — came out and said it never occurred.
So, it seemed as if it was just made up by somebody in the Biden administration. Then another official said that the spy balloons were discovered &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-explanation-for-why-trump-never-shot-down-chinese-spy-balloons-emerges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">after Trump left office.</a>&#8221;
How convenient.
Then something even more eyebrow-raising happened on Monday.
Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL) alleged that some former Trump officials believe that former Secretary of Defense James Mattis never informed the 45th president about the spy balloons due to his potential erratic behavior.
&#8220;My office has been briefed by the office of the Secretary of Defense of the current Pentagon that it happened over Florida, it happened over Texas, and that it’s happened before,&#8221; Waltz <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQraV6M1Xs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox Business&#8217;s Stuart Varney. &#8220;We have more detailed questions but what is unclear, Stuart, at this point is, did the Pentagon under the Trump administration brief the Trump White House and give them the option to take action or did they decide not to brief them for whatever reason?&#8221;
Waltz added that he is going to get to the bottom of what happened.
&#8220;And there is some speculation, I talked to Trump administration officials over the weekend, that the Pentagon deliberately did it because they thought Trump would be too provocative and too aggressive,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQraV6M1Xs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. &#8220;So that’s what we need to get to the bottom of and one person that I’m waiting to hear from that we haven’t heard from that list is former Secretary of Defense, General Mattis who was the secretary during this time period. What did he know and what did he decide to pass on and brief to the president.&#8221;
To recap, the alleged explanations regarding Chinese spy balloons under Trump are that, he knew and did nothing, the intel community failed to detect the balloons until after Trump left office, or that information was purposefully withheld from Trump — thereby potentially breaking chain-of-command.
Of those three, there is reason to suspect that the Deep State did not tell Trump.
We already know that the career officials in the U.S. government lied to Trump in the past in order to advance its policies and halt his America First agenda — such as when it hid the number of troops in Syria from the president.
&#8220;We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” former U.S. diplomat Jim Jeffrey and <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/">avowed</a> &#8220;Never Trumper&#8221; admitted in the waning days of the Trump administration.
So, the latest revelation about The Swamp not being forthright with Trump would not necessarily be surprising.
What should be never dulled is the apparent brazenness that the Deep State went to thwart the will of the American people who elected Trump during his time leading the executive branch. Now, even after he has left office, it seems they are trying to smear his presidency to excuse Biden&#8217;s ineptitude.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Blame Trump: The Deep State’s Latest Defense Of Biden’s Chinese Spy Balloon Ineptitude

Blame Trump: The Deep State’s Latest Defense Of Biden's Chinese Spy Balloon Ineptitude

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Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> said during an interview this week that he believes the so-called &#8220;deep state&#8221; exists and that it is defined by people who use their roles as civil servants to pursue partisan political agendas.
Barr made the remarks during an interview on PBS&#8217; “Firing Line&#8221; with host Margaret Hoover when he was asked to comment on his first stint as attorney general back in the 1990s under then-President George H.W. Bush, who previously ran the CIA.
&#8220;He was CIA director for one year and that institution is now named after him. When you drive by it in Langley, it’s the George H.W. Bush Center,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And he was highly regarded because he basically trusted people in the agency. He didn’t separate himself from them and, you know, bash them and so forth. Now, I have to say that it was a different age. Things have, you know, evolved.&#8221;
&#8220;So, you know, I wouldn’t take what he said to say, ‘Well, gee, you know, the people who were saying there’s a Deep State today are, you know, are wrong,’ right?&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;There is a deep state.&#8221;
&#8220;I am critical of the Deep State and believe it exists,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The way I would define the deep state is an increased willingness by more and more government civil servants to pursue political objectives, rather than stand up for the values of the institution they’re a part of. They are not neutral. They’re not politically neutral. But on the other side of the ledger, okay, is that I think there’s an exaggeration of its pervasiveness. It’s bad. It does pervert government. But I still think the vast majority of civil servants try to do an honest job and try to check their politics at the door.&#8221;
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<blockquote>MARGARET HOOVER: You worked under George H.W. Bush when he was CIA director as well, when you were still at the CIA. And you write, “He was easily accessible and he trusted CIA professionals, unless they gave him reason not to. I learned a lot watching him lift up a dispirited organization.” Talk more about what you learned from Bush’s leadership.
BILL BARR: Well, exactly that. He was CIA director for one year and that institution is now named after him. When you drive by it in Langley, it’s the George H.W. Bush Center. And he was highly regarded because he basically trusted people in the agency. He didn’t separate himself from them and, you know, bash them and so forth. Now I have to say that it was a different age. Things have, you know, evolved. So, you know, I wouldn’t take what he said to say, ‘Well, gee, you know, the people who were saying there’s a Deep State today are, you know, are wrong,’ right? There is a deep state.
HOOVER: That’s where I– You read my mind. That’s where I’m going. So given that you’ve worked with career professionals, you have had a long career of interfacing with civil servants who have made their life in the government, I think you’re actually particularly well-suited to comment about the state of the Deep State—whether it exists, how it exists, what it looks like—to put some nuance and some texture around it for me.
BARR: Well, I think the people who attack the Deep State – and I am critical of the Deep State and believe it exists – but there’s also some of the rhetoric and some of the positioning–
HOOVER: So how do you define it?
BARR: The way I would define the deep state is an increased willingness by more and more government civil servants to pursue political objectives, rather than stand up for the values of the institution they’re a part of. They are not neutral. They’re not politically neutral. But on the other side of the ledger, okay, is that I think there’s an exaggeration of its pervasiveness. It’s bad. It does pervert government. But I still think the vast majority of civil servants try to do an honest job and try to check their politics at the door. And I think that President Bush’s quote that you played is right on the money. The most important thing is leadership. When you provide clear guidance and goals people will– the institution will deliver for you. You can move the institution. And I think people who come in to run the government, who try to govern, who treat government employees as pariahs, are not doing their job.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-barr-blasts-letitia-james-civil-lawsuit-against-the-trump-family-its-a-political-hit-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr Blasts Letitia James’ Civil Lawsuit Against The Trump Family: ‘It’s A Political Hit Job’</a>

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Former Attorney General William Barr On The Deep State: ‘There Is A Deep State,’ It ‘Exists’

Former Attorney General William Barr On The Deep State: 'There Is A Deep State,' It 'Exists'

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Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) warned during a Fox News interview with anchor Bret Baier that powerful elites in the U.S. who go out of their way to destroy anyone that is a threat to them represent &#8220;a threat to our country and our democracy.&#8221;
Gabbard made the remarks toward the tail end of an interview in which she called the situation on the southern border &#8220;an utter disaster and failure&#8221; while pinning blame directly on &#8220;the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s open border policy.&#8221; Gabbard warned &#8220;we have no idea who is coming across the border.&#8221;
Speaking on Afghanistan, Gabbard said that &#8220;the way that this administration executed that withdrawal has been an utter and abject disaster, which is continuing to play out as we speak.&#8221;
Baier later brought up the latest news from special counsel John Durham&#8217;s criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia probe after there was an indictment of a Hillary Clinton attorney, Michael Sussman, who Baier said was &#8220;basically infusing this Russia narrative with the help of various media outlets and others.&#8221;
&#8220;Your thoughts as we&#8217;re starting to get this Durham investigation and what that means?&#8221; Baier asked.
&#8220;Confirms what I&#8217;ve known to be true, which is that you have the power elite, people like Hillary Clinton, those around her working with the media, the deep state in order to bring down the destruction and downfall of anyone that they deem to be a threat to their power,&#8221; Gabbard said. &#8220;Outsiders, people like me, people like Donald Trump, doesn&#8217;t matter, Democrat or Republican, if they identify, hey, this is someone who&#8217;s not going to toe the line, this is someone who&#8217;s not going to follow kind of the establishment way of things that are accepted, they pose a threat and we will do, they will do all they can to silence or censor or cancel what they view to be a threat and so this is bigger than than about me or Trump or anyone else.&#8221;
She concluded, &#8220;This is actually a threat to our country and our democracy the arrogance that these people have in thinking they have the right to manipulate the American people, what they view, what they hear, what they see, all to preserve their own selfish interest, not caring at all about the impact on the country, the impact of the American people or who gets hurt along the way.&#8221;
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<blockquote>BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS HOST: Let&#8217;s bring in former Hawaii Democratic Congresswoman, former presidential candidate and Army reservist Tulsi Gabbert. She&#8217;s just back from deployment in Africa to go after al Qaeda affiliate jihadists there. Hi, congresswoman, thanks for joining us. 
TULSI GABBARD: Hey, Brett.
BAIER: I want to talk about Afghanistan, foreign policy, and counterterrorism. But I want to start on the issue of immigration that&#8217;s pressing now in the news, you tweeted out this today. You said &#8216;the Biden Harris open door policy has been a disaster it needs to end now. The main beneficiaries of open borders are the gangs, cartels and human traffickers. The Trump policy of having people wait on the other side of the border worked and needs to be reinstated.&#8217; Your thoughts about what&#8217;s happening in Del Rio and how the administration is handling it?
GABBARD: It is an utter disaster and failure. And it&#8217;s directly attributed to the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s open border policy. This is not only a humanitarian crisis, it is a national security crisis. And it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve said all along, which is that if we do not secure our borders, then we can&#8217;t have a secure nation. There are so many issues that that have happened under this administration that have led to this point. And their continued failure of leadership is exacerbating the crisis that we&#8217;re seeing play out before our very eyes.
BAIER: Do you think, having been in Congress, that Congress can deal with this issue?
GABBARD: Congress has proven unfortunately, to put partisan politics ahead of actually passing real necessary immigration policy reform. But what we&#8217;ve seen under the last several months under this administration, unfortunately, and Joe Biden is a friend, I hold no malice towards him. But I have to say that the the policies and decisions that have been made via executive order by the White House have led to this open border policy, with thousands, tens of thousands, of people coming and attempting to and sometimes successfully streaming across the border.
BAIER: And you think that&#8217;s a national security threat as well?
GABBARD: It absolutely is, how can you say that it&#8217;s not when we have no idea who is coming across the border? And once again, how can we ensure safety and security for the American people, when we don&#8217;t have a secure border.
BAIER: Alright, the counterterrorism fight, the president talking about how its evolving, how it&#8217;s going to change, take a listen.
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BAIER: There are a lot of people congresswoman who say, what happened in Afghanistan, and what is happening now, and how we handled it, has really opened the door for more terrorists. You&#8217;ve just come back from Africa, which is also a hotbed of radical jihadists, your thoughts of where we are?
GABBARD: Well, as you know, Bret, in both East and West Africa, there is a surge of these jihadist terrorists, Al Qaeda, ISIS and affiliated groups are increasing in their strength. The withdrawal from Afghanistan is something that I agreed with. But unfortunately, the way that this administration executed that withdrawal has been an utter and abject disaster, which is continuing to play out as we speak. For those who say, and we should continue to monitor Afghanistan to make sure that there are no al Qaeda and ISIS strongholds that are allowed to start to take root, if we&#8217;re seeing that that&#8217;s starting to happen then we need to go and take them out, but we should not be under the illusion that this is a problem that&#8217;s only limited to Afghanistan. And the proof of that is that al Qaeda for a very long time has been able to get refuge in and actually have training camps and, and support in Pakistan, which is a problem that not only hasn&#8217;t been addressed, but we&#8217;ve seen the United States continue to support Pakistan, in spite of this known fact and reality. So this is a bigger issue here. That really needs to be addressed.
BAIER: Are you still a Democrat?
GABBARD: Yes.
BAIER: And will continue to be despite the criticism on a number of fronts?
GABBARD: Well, look, I&#8217;ve never been about party politics, Bret, I think you know that about me, I&#8217;m about putting country first. And the problems that we&#8217;re seeing on a whole host of policy fronts is those in positions of power and leadership, putting partisan politics, their own selfish desire for power, ahead of the interests of the country, ahead of the interests of the people. And that is, that&#8217;s what I always try to do my very best in looking at different policies is, we have to put the people and the interests of our country first.
BAIER: Well, I want to ask you about this. You know, we&#8217;re just getting the tip of the iceberg about this John Durham investigation and there&#8217;s been an indictment of a Hillary Clinton attorney, Mr. Sussman, about basically infusing this Russia narrative with the help of various media outlets and others. And it may go other places, we don&#8217;t know, we&#8217;re following it, but you have a unique perspective in that Hillary Clinton once called you a Russian asset, just to remind people. Take a listen.
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BAIER: Your thoughts as we&#8217;re starting to get this Durham investigation and what that means?
GABBARD: Confirms what I&#8217;ve known to be true, which is that you have the power elite, people like Hillary Clinton, those around her working with the media, the deep state in order to bring down the destruction and downfall of anyone that they deem to be a threat to their power. Outsiders, people like me, people like Donald Trump, doesn&#8217;t matter, Democrat or Republican, if they identify, hey, this is someone who&#8217;s not going to toe the line, this is someone who&#8217;s not going to follow the kind of the establishment way of things that are accepted, they pose a threat and we will do, they will do all they can to silence or censor or cancel what they view to be a threat and so this is bigger than than about me or Trump or anyone else. This is actually a threat to our country and our democracy the arrogance that these people have in thinking they have the right to manipulate the American people, what they view, what they hear, what they see, all to preserve their own selfish interest, not caring at all about the impact on the country, the impact of the American people or who gets hurt along the way.
BAIER: So I was interested to hear your point of view. You&#8217;re welcome back anytime. Thank you.</blockquote>

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&#8220;I am a woman of color, I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.&#8221;
If that sounds to you like perhaps the foreword to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s upcoming book, you would be wrong.
Actually, you&#8217;ll recall that that was actually a direct statement from a video, the CIA recruitment video, somehow — for some reason, advertising that &#8220;they&#8221; were a &#8220;cisgender mom.&#8221;
You see, they&#8217;re more accepting now, the CIA. The CIA has gone &#8220;woke&#8221; and wants more woke people to apply to their ranks to increase their &#8220;diversity,&#8221; even if the CIA should be focused on rooting out international terror threats, not rooting out white privilege in its Langley offices by staffing its desks with gender studies majors.
And then there&#8217;s the FBI. You remember they sent fifteen agents to investigate a noose in Bubba Wallace&#8217;s garage, the NASCAR driver. They&#8217;ve missed real crime and real terrorism happening in this country, threats to American families, but when it comes to a NASCAR garage pull — because that&#8217;s what it ended up being, a garage pull — they send a full team of federal agents to investigate.
Suddenly, the FBI is available because they want to address racism, and they have to be woke, they need to tell you that white supremacy, that racism is something that requires our attention — and worse, still, that its more dangerous to our national security than, say, radical Islamism or illegal immigration, problems the Biden administration has and refuses to address.
At first, the very notion of a woke &#8220;deep state&#8221; seemed funny. I&#8217;ll admit, I laughed at the CIA recruitment video, and I laughed — albeit in frustration — at the Bubba Wallace situation.
But this is really no laughing matter. The deep state&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;wokeness&#8221; is spilling over from how it staffs its ranks to how it does its job, and — make no mistake — if you&#8217;re not among those who think correctly, you could find yourself in their crosshairs. It&#8217;s a two-tiered system, where conservatives are approached with suspicion, and leftists are given liberal privilege.
If you are among those who think correctly, you won&#8217;t have to worry, even if your decisions result in the deaths of, perhaps, thousands of people.
Last week, the Department of Justice announced that they have no intention of continuing a probe into Governor Andrew Cuomo over an order he gave mandating that nursing homes accept recovering COVID-19 patients who were still contagious — an order that likely killed thousands. They&#8217;ve also dropped looking into Governor Gretchen Whitmer over in Michigan, saying that this is a topic they&#8217;re just not interested in exploring.
Speaking of Governor Whitmer, notoriously in this past week even <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant">BuzzFeed</a> is now saying that a suspected &#8220;plot&#8221; from &#8220;Trump supporters&#8221; who wanted to &#8220;kill Governor Whitmer&#8221; may have been largely driven by the FBI.
On the other hand, the Biden administration is desperate to find evidence that conservatives are plotting to overthrow the American government. Attorney General Merrick Garland even announced a &#8220;national strategy for countering domestic terrorism&#8221; pledging to root out and expose &#8220;domestic terrorists&#8221; and evil conservative &#8220;enemies of the state.&#8221;
Last month, the U.S. military&#8217;s Office of Inspector General asked for more power to &#8220;root out extremism&#8221; within military ranks. According to recent reports, suspicion of woke movements like Black Lives Matter is evidence that you might be a problem, and if you&#8217;re a problem, you can be rooted out and replaced — by the woke.
The United States military is actively looking for idealogues, people that could become unquestioningly faithful to an idea. So much so that the Constitution of the United States no longer matters. Common sense no longer matters.
That is what being woke actually means. It&#8217;s a radical approach to thinking, morality, ethics, even basic biology. Everything can be suspended because the woke believe in a greater idea, like men can be women and we need people transitioning while in the military. It doesn&#8217;t matter if those ideas are true, only that the people who believe in them are committed.
This is a recipe for disaster, a recipe for atrocity. It&#8217;s setting the stage for the kind of society where horrible atrocities against humanity can take place. It&#8217;s setting the stage for the kind of society where freedom of speech and freedom of thought are non-existent and ideas are policed by ideologues, like the kind being welcomed into the federal government&#8217;s enforcement arms.
An ideological purge is happening in America today at every single layer of our government, and it is time for all of us to stop laughing and start paying attention.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said President Trump’s accusations of a “deep state” at the Food and Drug Administration were meant to push bureaucrats for solutions to the coronavirus pandemic.
Meadows appeared on ABC&#8217;s “This Week” with host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday to discuss the president’s Saturday tweet and efforts to come up with treatments and a <a href="https://dw-site-dev.dailywire.com/news/i-wouldnt-take-it-former-fda-commissioner-warns-against-trusting-russian-vaccine-putin-gave-to-daughter">vaccine</a> for COVID-19. Meadows said that the tweet, and an announcement from Trump expected on Sunday afternoon, is about cutting red tape that is slowing the approval process.
“It’s not just the FDA, it’s NIH and others,” Meadows said. “We’re not cutting any corners. But what we have is &#8230; a China virus that came here. We’ve got to deliver answers, and the president each and every day is saying, ‘Why don’t we have an answer today? Why don’t we have an answer tomorrow?’”
On Sunday morning, White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-plans-announcement-sunday-evening-regarding-major-therapeutic-breakthrough-on-covid-19">Kayleigh McEnany announced</a> that the president would be unveiling a “major therapeutic breakthrough on the China Virus” on Sunday evening during a press conference.
“We continue to look at some of the trials and what’s happening, and we want to wear a belt and suspenders the way that some of these bureaucrats want to look at it. They want to do things the way they’ve always done it,” Meadows continued. “This president is about cutting red tape. That’s what the tweet was all about.”
“He had to make sure that they felt the heat. If they don’t see the light, they need to feel the heat because the American people are suffering. This president knows it, and he’s going to put it on, [whether] it’s the FDA or NIH or anybody else to make sure that we deliver on behalf of the American people,” Meadows said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GStephanopoulos</a>: So Trump does believes there are those in the FDA who are trying to delay testing vaccines and therapeutics for political purposes?
Mark Meadows: “I believe that there are a number of people that do not see the same sense of urgency.” <a href="https://t.co/P6iz1jjwYE">https://t.co/P6iz1jjwYE</a> <a href="https://t.co/C2lLlPTAJ5">pic.twitter.com/C2lLlPTAJ5</a>
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Meadows also said that Trump has to rely on other methods of holding bureaucrats accountable other than simply firing poor workers because legally cutting someone from a federal job is “almost impossible.”
Trump tweeted Saturday that members of the FDA have been delaying approvals amid the pandemic to delay treatments until after the election.
“The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives!” Trump said, tagging <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-head-highlights-new-potential-treatment-for-coronavirus-for-which-fda-has-enthusiasm">FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn</a>.
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The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives! <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveFDA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SteveFDA</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1297138862108663808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump’s criticism of the FDA came less than two weeks after Hahn had promised the FDA would not “cut corners” on approving treatments or a vaccine for the coronavirus in response to concerns that the agency was rushing approvals because of the pandemic.
“Let me assure you that we will not cut corners,” Hahn <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html">told</a> the American Medical Association during an Aug. 10 briefing. “All of our decisions will continue to be based on good science and the same careful deliberative processes we have always used when reviewing medical products.”

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