Way before people started calling it the “Deep State,” Washington had a built-in system that never changed no matter who won the White House. It is the permanent bureaucracy, entrenched military brass, intelligence chiefs, and federal powers that outlast presidents and shape outcomes.
And according to newly unsealed testimony, Richard Nixon didn’t just believe that machine existed. He walked straight into this buzz saw and was shredded.
The New York Times just published a very interesting piece divulging that while Nixon was drowning in Watergate hell, there was something else happening behind the scenes… something way more explosive and dangerous. It was a wartime espionage operation run by senior military officials inside the Pentagon. This was the actual Deep State running an operation against the President of The United States.
The Joint Chiefs had a mole inside the White House, stealing classified docs and handing them over to senior military commanders.
This is the New York Times admitting that entrenched bureaucratic forces (Deep State) respond aggressively when they feel threatened.
Moorer-Radford exposed a hidden feature of the American political system that endures: When excluded from their spheres of interest, entrenched bureaucratic forces will, almost as a biological reflex, respond aggressively.
Just look at all the people spying. It’s a literal free-for-all.
The NYT piece explains:
Declassified documents and scholarship published since 1974 have established that the F.B.I., under its director, J. Edgar Hoover, spied on Mitchell, the attorney general, and that the C.I.A. detailed its personnel to various units associated with Nixon, including the Watergate burglary team and “components intimately associated with the office of the president,” as the agency admitted in 1975.
Think about this… the Joint Chiefs is spying, the FBI is spying, and the CIA is embedded. And all of this is connected to a sitting US president.
And Nixon knew exactly what was happening, but he decided not to expose it.
Why?
Because blowing it wide open would’ve ripped the military apart smack in the middle of the Cold War.
So Nixon swallowed it.
Watergate became the headline, and the spy operation disappeared into a black hole somewhere, stamped classified, and forgotten.
That was 1971.
Hellbound and Down 