A distinguished professor at GMU and former Dubya CIA Director, Michael Hayden, lusting for another 15 minutes of fame, recently expressed the idiotic view that Donald Trump was the equivalent of the Rosenbergs—another Atom Bomb Spy. I guess Hayden qualifies as Deep State, although Shallow State would seem to fit the case better. Imagine how dumbfounded countries with serious Intel services, countries like Russia and China, must be by Hayden’s performance. They must be muttering, Man, without nukes these guys are nowhere!
Now, as if to definitively confirm that he’s only fit for the shallow end of the Intel pool, Hayden “liked” the following tweet—from a newspaper writer:


They really do hate us. And by “they” I guess I mean the GOP Establishment. Or maybe I missed reports of prominent Republicans eviscerating Hayden.
Matt Taibbi—not a Republican—offers the pretty obvious response:


Given that, during his inexplicable tenure in high level positions of the Deep State, Hayden engaged in all kinds of illegal actions against Americans—not just al Qaeda terrorists—one wonders whether Hayden would now be in favor of turning the drones loose on, say, parents attending school board meetings. You know—domestic terrorists, as defined by your FBI and DoJ. Does this tell you more than you ever suspected about the kinds of people who rise to great bureaucratic heights in the American Empire?
Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, some goof named Mike Pence—not a Republican, but he says he knows some—called on his “Republican friends” to stop criticizing the FBI. That’s the 11th commandment of the Deep State these days: Thou shalt not criticize the FBI. The longer version includes something about not saying sh*t when you have a mouth full of it.
Laura Ingraham had a nice chat with Tucker Carlson about both of these incidents the other night. Tucker explains who that “concubine” is:
"his lack of probity and integrity with a knee-jerk emotionalism resonant of a school-girl"
That pretty much sums up the personality type that rises to the top of bureaucracies--membership in the mean girls' club, regardless of gender.
Pence is continuing his long slide to oblivion. Joining such luminaries as Jeb!!!!