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In private industry you have two options: go with the orders and resign. You can tell your boss you donāt like it, but it still gets down to those two options. The word NO is not tolerated and youāll be out the door if you use it.
āThe ādeep stateāāif we are to use the termāis better defined as consisting of career civil servants, who have growing power in the administrative state but work in the shadows. As government grows, so do the challenges of supervising a bureaucracy swelling in both size and power. Emboldened by employment rules that make it all but impossible to fire career employees, this internal civil āresistanceā has proved willing to take ever more outrageous actions against the president and his policies, using the tools of both traditional and social media.
Government-employed resisters received a call to action within weeks of the new administration. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates became acting attorney general on Mr. Trumpās inauguration and Loretta Lynchās resignation. A week later, the president signed an executive order restricting travel from seven Middle Eastern and African countries. Ms. Yates instructed Justice Department lawyers not to defend the order in court on the grounds that she was not convinced it was āconsistentā with the departmentās āresponsibilitiesā or even ālawful.ā She decreed: āFor as long as I am Acting Attorney General, the Department of Justice will not present arguments in defense of the Executive Order.ā
Mr. Trump fired her that day, but he shouldnāt have had to. Her obligation was to defend the executive order, or to resign if she felt she couldnāt. Nobody elected Sally Yates.
The Yates memo was the first official act of the internal resistanceānot only a precedent but a rallying cry. Subordinates fawningly praised her in emails obtained by Judicial Watch. āYou are my new hero,ā wrote one federal prosecutor. Another department colleague emailed: āThank you AG Yates. Iāve been in civil/appellate for 30 years and have never seen an administration with such contempt for democratic values and the rule of law.ā Andrew Weissmannāa career department lawyer, then head of the Criminal Fraud Division and later on the staff of special counsel Robert Muellerāwrote: āI am so proud. And in awe. Thank you so much.ā Ms. Yates set an example to rebels throughout the government: If she can defy the president, why canāt I?
That mentality fed the stream of leaks that has flowed ever since.ā
Opinion | Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State
āThe ādeep stateāāif we are to use the termāis better defined as consisting of career civil servants, who have growing power in the administrative state but work in the shadows. As government grows, so do the challenges of supervising a bureaucracy swelling in both size and power. Emboldened by employment rules that make it all but impossible to fire career employees, this internal civil āresistanceā has proved willing to take ever more outrageous actions against the president and his policies, using the tools of both traditional and social media.
Government-employed resisters received a call to action within weeks of the new administration. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates became acting attorney general on Mr. Trumpās inauguration and Loretta Lynchās resignation. A week later, the president signed an executive order restricting travel from seven Middle Eastern and African countries. Ms. Yates instructed Justice Department lawyers not to defend the order in court on the grounds that she was not convinced it was āconsistentā with the departmentās āresponsibilitiesā or even ālawful.ā She decreed: āFor as long as I am Acting Attorney General, the Department of Justice will not present arguments in defense of the Executive Order.ā
Mr. Trump fired her that day, but he shouldnāt have had to. Her obligation was to defend the executive order, or to resign if she felt she couldnāt. Nobody elected Sally Yates.
The Yates memo was the first official act of the internal resistanceānot only a precedent but a rallying cry. Subordinates fawningly praised her in emails obtained by Judicial Watch. āYou are my new hero,ā wrote one federal prosecutor. Another department colleague emailed: āThank you AG Yates. Iāve been in civil/appellate for 30 years and have never seen an administration with such contempt for democratic values and the rule of law.ā Andrew Weissmannāa career department lawyer, then head of the Criminal Fraud Division and later on the staff of special counsel Robert Muellerāwrote: āI am so proud. And in awe. Thank you so much.ā Ms. Yates set an example to rebels throughout the government: If she can defy the president, why canāt I?
That mentality fed the stream of leaks that has flowed ever since.ā
Opinion | Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State