Worth the read: Weekly Standard writer Jay Cost outlines the ‘Deep State vs. Trump’
Read @JayCostTWS's thread on The Deep State vs. Trump https://t.co/c2qearLSXX
— Ryan Fazio (@ryanfazio) March 5, 2017
Weekly Standard senior writer Jay Cost put together a very intriguing thread on the Deep State and Trump on Sunday afternoon.
thread –> https://t.co/Csura4dKq6
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 5, 2017
Here it is.
It's been pretty clear for months that the government has been spying on the Trump orbit, right?
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
And it's also been pretty clear that the timing of the leaks of these intelligence-gathering efforts have been politically motivated, right?
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
It's not a coincidence that some big stories came right before the inaugural and right after his pseudo-SOTU, right?
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
I mean go back and read the stuff from January. The NSA is explicitly mentioned as part of a counterintelligence operation.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
The problem with Trump's tweets is that he fingered Obama as "tapping" Trump…
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
But that's not been established. What we have established is that multiple parts of the Obama admin were gathering intel on Trump associates
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
That's not even an inference. That's just been outright established in these reports.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
The inference–and I think it's a reasonable one–is that the DISPERSION of this information has been political in nature.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
Trump claimed the COLLECTION of info was political in nature. That has not been established at all.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
But I am extremely bothered by the dispersion of this info for what seems to me to be political purposes.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
And that bothers me as much as any intemperate tweet by a bad POTUS. Bad POTUSes can be voted out of office.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
Unelected bureaucrats leaking partial info to unelected journos b/c they all dislike like the elected POTUS? … I don't like that.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
Leaks such as these typically favor one party over the other. So there is always one side cheering them on.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
So there is never a durable coalition to step forward and say, "Hey, bureaucrats! Quit BREAKING THE LAW to interfere in politics!"
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
And of course journalists, who typically claim the mantle of good governance, don't mind this, either. It helps them.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
So there is really no institutional counterweight. And since 9/11 the intelligence community has gotten really aggressive …
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
… in dabbling in the political realm.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
I'm not defending Trumpian bombast here. I've seen no indication that intel collection was politically motivated. https://t.co/ARrAiLj1jC
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
What I'm saying is that intel dispersion has seemed awfully convenient in its timing. THAT stinks of politics.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
And BTW that does not finger Obama at all! It could just be bureaucrats in the intel services who hate Trump and wanna get him.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
Personally, I don't buy the idea that an admin too incompetent to build a website could secretly take down the next POTUS.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
That just seems silly to me.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
And BTW to me it is a lot more discomfiting to think this is career bureaucrats acting on their own volition. What's the remedy for that?
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
It's like Dems blaming Comey. Comforting to inger ONE GUY WHOM WE KNOW. But c'mon. it was a bunch of papercuts from pissed off FBI agents…
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
…who shall always and forevermore remain anonymous.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) March 5, 2017
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