re: Andrew Weissmann's intentional ignorance on checks and balances.

Tom Clancy laid out the Deep State, albeit not by that name, in Executive Orders.

He called them “official Washington” and a big part of the problems in the book was that the new politicians were not kowtowing to these groups and they were getting pissed about it.



Civil servants and those on the periphery are there to keep things running regardless of who the executive is. When they see themselves as bigger than the executive, that is where the Pendleton Civil Service Act needs to be overhauled and these frickers frog marched out.