President Donald trump and his Republican allies are right about one thing: ex-FBI Director James Comey is the epitome of the “deep state.”
That’s just not an indictment of his character they think it is.
In his book, higher loyalty, and a massive attack in the media that accompanied it, the roots have made it clear that although he spent most of his career in government as a Federal Prosecutor, who went after the mafia families, the US attorney for the southern district of new York (the most powerful U.S. attorney in the country), Deputy attorney General under President George Bush — he sees himself as another, more noble creature than politicians around him.
Trump, who fired Komi Republic in may of last year (and who have taken To calling him “slime ball” on Twitter), reminds of a mafia boss in his demands for loyalty and constant lying; former attorney General Loretta Lynch, meanwhile, was trying to infiltrate the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton using a private email server in such a way that the roots are “sick.”
But Komei not to describe themselves as the only honorable man in Washington. He is part of brotherhood of noble public servants — law enforcement and intelligence agencies — internal code whose honor cancels their loyalty to the agenda of the government officials they supposedly serve.
It’s not a secret, the fifth-columnesque “deep state” Trumpian fevered imagination. Komi Sam the eagle-as morality is the embodiment of the attitude of the FBI often leads to politics in General, and even political appointees who oversee it, the Department of justice and the White house: the superiority is that, when challenged, freeze in prickly independence.
Is the organizational culture that put the FBI, which is generally characterized as Republican-leaning, in a ridiculous position, when he was seen as a Bastion of anti-trump “deep state”. Investigation of Russian influence in the presidential election of 2016, and now is whether the President obstructed justice by firing Komi, headed by former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Komi has been a leading critic of the President. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was ousted from office and stripped of his pension; agents of Peter Strzok and Lisa page to become leading figures in conservative conspiracy theories.
It may seem ridiculous, if you know the history of the Bureau the FBI to be thrown into a bunch of defenders of the American Republic, some in the #resistance, but as a bunch of fifth columnists some on the right. But it’s actually quite understandable.
Exactly what do the FBI, or organisations like that, troublesome and even dangerous, in such circumstances, and better presidents, the things that make it better equipped to resist abuse of power.
The FBI may remove the President of the trump; it’s inevitable that they will do it.
To successfully to be apolitical, there must be something else, for which you are seeking
One of the most striking things about the public discussion of the roots in his new life as an author-expert is his desire to describe current or former officials the trump card of the administration — his former colleagues — as to damage or partners. Take his assessment of the Deputy General Prosecutor rod Rosenstein, who currently oversees Mueller probe and which also criticized trump’s allies in the Komi clan and the “deep state”-ist:
Distrust of Komi Rosenstein is not unfounded. We still don’t know what Rosenstein knew about the true reasons that trump wanted Komi fired, but the fact that trump’s latest tweets Komi to criticize for being too easy on Clinton, while Rosenstein Memorandum justified the dismissal of the Komi Republic for being too harsh with her, of course, raise questions about whether the MOU was really the main reason Komi fired.
Rosenstein latency is not an exception in this administration, is the norm. One of the most striking features of the trump era, as invariably the people who work for or with her to the end to humiliate themselves — whether they defend a conspiracy theory or fantasy math, praising the event of the President after the news that they called him a “moron”, or forced to defend the case of a decision of a man who refuses to listen to his intelligence briefings.
The fact of the matter is that from the inside, it’s not always easy to draw clear boundaries between doing their job and doing something in defense of his boss that is morally bankrupt. While everyone fantasizes what he or she is the person to refuse unethical team, it’s not always easy to trust your intuition that something is immoral — especially when you say will not contradict the objectives of any policy could be as Republican officials of the Republican Administration or the Republican legislator in the framework of a unified Republican government.
If You are unable to rely on their own intuition, then you need an external code of behavior, to guide you.
“Rule of law” is a procedural value: it says about what is right for the government to do is to establish and maintain appropriate procedures in all cases, without favor or prejudice, where these processes may lead. No man is above the law and no one is enough to defeat him strong; and compliance with the law means to go about things “the right way”.
In the Komi Republic was faced, as described in the book (and the Senate testimony he delivered last summer), about what to do after President trump has called him to a private meeting to “find your way” to allow the former national security Advisor, Michael Flynn go without charges. To act in the service of politics (the President, after all, his ultimate boss), he would have passed on the instructions of the President and has urged investigators turned their attention elsewhere. To rebel, he could go to the statements of the President as a possible evidence in the investigation or order the Bureau to initiate an investigation into the trump.
He did not do. Instead, he recorded the conversation in the memo, but deliberately did not tell the people working on the investigation of Russia about him, because he wanted the investigation to unfold exactly as it would in the absence of presidential pressure.
This, of course, not the only solution, or even the most faithful. But the decision on what Komi could do without having to trust your intuition about right and wrong is a decision that he can be prosecuted and to protect in accordance with the code of his office.
That’s what professionalism means to him. He immediately and clearly see a violation of ethics to open up and tried to prevent it. But, telling Komi, he just deepened his commitment to doing the job.
Of course, each character has its own story and roots it is possible to do a bit cocky. But this is all the more significant that given the chance to show himself as the hero, that heroism he chose. Komei was deliberately making yourself into an avatar “stubborn FBI agent” — and, thus, reinforcing (for FBI agents, as well as the General public) the idea that this is what every FBI agent should strive to be.
Institutions strong enough to undermine the leaders and those strong enough to resist rapists
The term “deep state” was stretched beyond recognition in the hands of the trump card of the allies. As often as not they use it to mean no more than “there are many people in the Federal government, who are liberals, and therefore they try to undermine the agenda of President inside.”
Conspiracy is a concept that hardly deserves debunking, but here goes: the Federal government does not act with a single mind. There are a huge number of squabbles between departments, institutions, agencies, and individuals: all the debates about the strategy of the struggle for scarce resources management/labor disputes and bureaucratic undercover wars.
Institutions that are closest to acting with a single consciousness-those with a robust internal culture, where everyone agrees about what it means to do the job well and protects each other for it.
Correct the “deep state” — an institution whose control over the government not only may not be touched by elected officials, but actually exceeds their capacity — takes it one step further. He sees himself as the protector of not only their own values but also the values of the nation.
Maybe America really is the “deep state” as the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. FBI Hoover really work without political accountability, and saw himself above the presidents who ruled it. Values, in this case, was his own law-and-order Hoover self-righteousness. Men, as a rule, was weak and needed aggressive reminders to stay on the straight and narrow; politicians were just men. But the g-men g-men.
The FBI does not have excessive power it under vacuum. But there is something of self-righteousness in its institutional DNA. That can be a problem in some cases, so that the unwavering loyalty of any morals can create excess.
But You can’t create an institution that is transparent, humble, and open to suggestion in good times, and cheerful, independent and stubborn in the bad. These are organizations that are least willing to accept direction from the outside about what they should appreciate that, most likely, to preserve their identity in the face of a coup attempt. It organizations that take on threats to their independence personally that those most likely to act in self-defence, when someone tries to beat them.
This could be bad for democracy. But it’s a good weapon against despotism.
The complicating factor is that public officials and civil servants. If politicians are elected to carry out its agenda, it is logical that the program needs to change the way public employees do their jobs. No, even in the best of times, the tension between the apolitical professionalism and service to the society.
Immigration agents under the Obama administration, for example, saw their job as compliance with immigration laws is their definition of professionalism. But Obama and his political appointees, especially in their second term, I believe that they were (re)elected in part to protect against the unauthorized immigrant families, who have not committed crimes from deportation. They are working on this platform and was rewarded for it. The result of grinding, multi-year battle between labor and management, which looked like a struggle for “moral”, but actually fight for what operatives work I had to do.
It’s a difficult balance to strike. But this is not a situation where we are now.
Donald trump is not going to the FBI because they stand in the way of his agenda. He attacks them because they carefully studied his behavior and he tries to defend himself.
Scandal Russia may stand in the way of trump’s program, because it reduces the amount of public attention to it, or sway trump with legislators to adopt it. But this is not an argument, Trump should be exempt from inspections. If the concept of Republican government means, it must mean that the act of election of a person does not allow him legal impunity. His policy comes before the law.
If trump was a man willing to learn, he may have interpreted the reaction of the FBI to the firing of Komi, and the appointment of Mueller as the brushback — a reminder of where the boundaries are. And it would be welcome, even for those who have no love for the FBI. But he did not accept these signals. It strengthened his attacks on the leadership of the FBI, and Republican officials followed his example.
New York times and the trump Charmer Maggie Haberman explained one motivation for the President’s attacks: if he really is seriously considering the possibility of dismissal Rosenstein or send Muller, he believes that constant threats for their work will successfully scare them, be careful of what he, in other words, is the one throwing brushback pitches.
But the fact that Donald trump doesn’t understand that not everyone in the government is motivated solely by a desire to keep their jobs. Some have had it drilled into their heads for decades that their job is to serve the Republic. And maybe sometimes they may even be right.
Correction: this article originally identified Sam the eagle Sam the eagle. The author deeply apologizes for this gross error.
Sourse: vox.com
