stonewalling, , themselves into an impervious alliance
As Tulsi Gabbard once testified of this alliance that hamstrings justice, even while right under her nose as acting director:
"I could share a long list of anecdotes and experiences. the means of retaliation and resistance.
Some would be so petty they would make you laugh. I'll give you one quick example.
I needed a a placemat, a big piece of paper printed out for something I needed to share with the president. Had a meeting with him
at 10:00 a.m. in the Oval Office. And there was someone there in my agency that was detailed from a different agency who was responsible for printing these things.
And so I was waiting. Time was 9:15, 9:30. I got to go. I didn't have what I needed.
And uh long story short, the president needed to push the meeting back an hour, which saved me because this guy who was responsible for printing, refused to print it because he disagreed with what was on the paper.
And turns out he actually did print it, but then he locked it in his desk and refused to open his desk.
My chief of staff went down and said, "The director needs to present this to the president. We need this." And he said, "Nope, I refuse."
And so my chief brought down my head of general counsel, who said, "The director needs this for the president. I refuse." And he would not do this until his boss back at his home agency said it was okay to do it. Ridiculous.
There are other examples that are far more serious and grave that would make you concerned for the integrity and future of our republic as I am.
We must remain vigilant.
This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue. These people have been doing this across administrations for decades and longer.
They thrive in the gaps between elections. They are deeply entrenched in the bureaucratic infrastructure. But fundamentally the quality that these people share is that they put themselves, their own interests, their own objectives ahead of our Constitution and the best interests of the American people.
The work of exposing and dismantling these entrenched power structures is not finished.
We the people must continue to hold our leaders accountable to to fight against these deep state actors because they are the nameless, faceless force within our government that doesn't care about you.
They don't care about our freedom. They don't care about our security. They care about themselves and their own power.
The future is in our hands. We must remain vigilant.
