The best way to understand the deep state is that it is a collection of independent, decentralized cliques of civil servants Many of them have taken independent shots at Trump
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There's the FBI clique - Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page Then, there's the DOJ clique - Andrew Weissmann and friends Now, we're looking at the NSC clique - Ciaramella, Vindman, etc
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There was a CIA/Intel specific clique too, with Brennan and Clapper leading that one There's not some grand conspiracy behind the scenes, because there doesn't need to be Every clique hated Trump so they all started working against him at various points in 2016-17
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In that sense, the civil service rebellion against Trump is a decentralized, emergent phenomenon, not a top-down, command and control operation
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This is true in most areas of life "Grand conspiracies" rarely happen because coordinating large numbers of people in secret is incredibly difficult If discretion is required you can really only work with a few people that you know well
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