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For anyone who doubts deep state power: (1) When Elon's Doge tried to investigate the Pentagon. A bit after that there's the announcement that Elon will soon leave Doge and there's no real Doge report about cuts to the Pentagon. (2) Pete Hegseth was talking about 8% cuts to the military budget per year. Instead of a cut, the budget increased by 13%. (3) Kash Patel and Pam Bondi switch on releasing Epstein files and their claim that Epstein never blackmailed anyone is remarkable.
With Clinton's email server motivations are pretty unclear. If we take Signalgate, using Signal is one choice you can make because you are lazy. Setting the chat to auto-delete after a few weeks is a choice that suggests the intention to avoid the communication becoming a problem later.
From what happened at Fauci's NIAID:
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Morens was stupid enough to write his motivations down, but I would expect that many US government departments run in similar ways.
2ChristianKl
The term deep state was originally used to speak about Turkey's military (and the associated power center). That's what it was coined to describe. There's political power in the military that's separated from the democratically legitimated power.
In this case, we did have an administration that had the intention to cut the military budget and audit the Pentagon but the Pentagon was powerful enough to stop that and to instead get their budget increased. It needed a lot more than just inertia and internal politics to accomplish that goal.
I mean, It's the Pentagon. It obviously has all sorts of leverage, as well as personal connections and influence. "If you cut our funding then we won't do X" is enough to put pressure. I'm not saying this is not the case, I'm saying this is... not particularly surprising. Like, anyone who thinks that the true challenge of politics is to figure out the precise orders to give once you're elected, then you can sit back and see your will be enacted as if the entire apparatus of the state was a wish-granting genie is deluded. Obviously the challenge is getting ... (read more)