{"id":11713,"date":"2019-03-09T02:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11713"},"modified":"2019-03-09T02:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T10:48:07","slug":"learning-to-love-the-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/learning-to-love-the-deep-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Love the Deep State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1970s, the military officer corps and the top ranks of the CIA, DOJ, and FBI were, in the eyes of the Left, synonymous with&nbsp;<em>Seven Days in May<\/em>\u2014 and&nbsp;<em>Manchurian Candidate<\/em>\u2013like conspiracies. Yet in 2016, these same institutions had been recalibrated by progressives as protectors of social justice against interlopers and bomb throwers like Donald Trump. Whether it was scary or needed to have a secretive, unelected cabal inside the White House subverting presidential agendas depended on who was president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Robert Mueller investigations, progressives usually defended the FISA-court-ordered intercepts of private citizens\u2019 communications, despite the machinations taken to deceive FISA-court justices. Indeed, liberal critics suggested that to question how the multitude of conflicts of interest at the Obama DOJ and FBI had warped their presentations of the Steele dossier to the courts was in itself an obstruction of justice or downright unpatriotic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News of FBI informants planted into the 2016 Trump campaign raised no eyebrows. Nor did the unmasking and leaking of the names of U.S. citizens by members of the Obama National Security Council. Former CIA director John Brennan and ex-director of National Intelligence James Clapper soon become progressive pundits on cable news. While retaining their security clearances, they blasted Trump variously as a Russian mole, a foreign asset, treasonous, and a veritable traitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/03\/deep-state-federal-bureaucracy-trump-campaign\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In the 1970s, the military officer corps and the top ranks of the CIA, DOJ, and FBI were, in the eyes of the Left, synonymous with&nbsp;Seven Days in May\u2014 and&nbsp;Manchurian Candidate\u2013like conspiracies. Yet in 2016, these same institutions had been recalibrated by progressives as protectors of social justice against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-32V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10948,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fisa-gate-is-scarier-than-watergate\/","url_meta":{"origin":11713,"position":0},"title":"FISA-Gate is Scarier than Watergate","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Watergate scandal of 1972\u201374 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon administration\u2019s attempt to warp the CIA and FBI to cover up an otherwise minor, though\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FISA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FISA","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fisa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10943,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fisa-gate-boomerangs\/","url_meta":{"origin":11713,"position":1},"title":"The FISA-Gate Boomerangs","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Some things still do not add up about the so-called Steele dossier, FISA warrants, the Nunes memo, and the hysterical Democratic reaction to it. 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Donald Trump\u2019s tax-return psychodrama is going the way of the Emoluments Clause, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10926,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/did-the-fbi-vouch-for-the-crazy-russian-deal-from-the-steele-dossier\/","url_meta":{"origin":11713,"position":5},"title":"Did The FBI Vouch For The Crazy Russian Deal From The Steele Dossier?","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Roderick Gregory \/\/ Forbes The media\u2019s promotion of an unverified dossier against Republican candidate, Donald Trump, failed to cement Hillary Clinton\u2019s expected victory in November. 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