Deep state defiance and resistance is insurrection
By Todd Gregory and Erik Gregory
web posted February 10, 2025
It is an ongoing media slander to assert that unarmed protesters who entered the US Capitol on January 6, many of whom were invited into the Rotunda by Capitol police (deliberate entrapment leading to mostly misdemeanor charges of trespassing), are insurrectionists.
No, it is the permanent governing class, the bureaucrats who staff the various alphabet agencies and cabinets, and the Intelligence Community (IC) engaging in resistance (while openly defying lawful executive orders), who are the real insurrectionists.
Corrupt, compromised FBI supervisors and special agents who targeted those J6 protesters are now expressing fears about being relieved of their duties. Instead, they should get down on their knees and thank God for the leniency shown them.
After all, fired or soon-to-be retired FBI personnel are not facing heavily armed predawn raids with automatic weapons pointed at their spouses' or children's heads, ugly entrapment schemes, perp walks, and indefinite terms of incarceration, often in solitary confinement, while awaiting trial on utterly scurrilous criminal charges.
To get an idea of how irretrievably broken the Intelligence Community is, consider what is fueling the longstanding mutual disdain between the FBI and CIA.
Why, it's a question of class, caste, breeding, and style. You see, the CIA is foreign-focused and "cosmopolitan," comprised of urbane and upper crust sophisticates, academics and intellectuals. They have panache, and in the field they're all James Bond (in their self-aggrandizing view of themselves).
The domestic-minded FBI, on the other hand, is perceived as boring, middle class, state college as opposed to elite university. Their clothes aren't as nice; they probably wear suits from the Men's Wearhouse instead of Gucci. They drink beer or bourbon instead of Russian vodka or single malt scotch, and they're more provincial than worldly.
Yes, these are some of the childish hang-ups that make the agencies uncooperative with each other, feuding and engaging in turf wars, mutual finger-pointing, and petty jealousies. Cool kids on the quad sneering at the booger-eating goobers and nerds, and vice-versa.
Simmering resentments over things like style, image, public perception, and which agency is more glamorous or deserving of taxpayer largesse, is what animates nearly 80 years of mutual contempt between the agencies, leading to countless foreign-influenced domestic IC failures from 9/11 to Ft. Hood to Boston to San Bernardino to Orlando to New Orleans and many, many more.
Or, more darkly, perhaps these IC "failures" had a dimension of intentionality, as they led directly to a dramatic expansion of government-granted extralegal powers, funding, and continued relevance for both agencies, with each of them always blaming a lack of resources (money) as they offload responsibility for their serial failures onto other IC agencies. Like little kids throwing spit-wads in a sandbox, it is puerile beyond belief.
It is a short, straight line from the dysphoric, cross-dressing J. Edgar Hoover to the politically correct, Robert Mueller-addled FBI that allowed 9/11 to happen to the sociopathic Russia hoaxer James "I don't recall, not in my purview" Comey to the pro-Antifa and DEI reign of Christopher Wray (so-called white supremacist extremists attending Latin mass, pro-life grandmothers, conservative meme generators, and parents at PTA meetings are the nation's biggest terror threats, eh, Mr. Wray? Oh, dear).
When the ever-dissembling Wray denied even the existence of Antifa ("it doesn't exist, it's just an ideology") under oath before congress, it became clear that the FBI does not have an adversarial relationship with Antifa.
So, that begs the question: Does the FBI have quite a few informants embedded within Antifa? Does the agency underwrite Antifa with US taxpayer dollars and use Antifa as street level thugs to advance FBI objectives the same way the FBI used dozens of informants to catalyze events on January 6? Or how about the FBI's agents provocateurs who orchestrated the fake kidnapping plot against Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer?
Several peaceful J6 dissidents who trespassed on Capitol grounds were later rounded up by the FBI and ended up committing suicide — and the countless FBI supervisors and field agents who persecuted those and hundreds of other J6 trespassers presumably still sleep like babies at night.
That's a lot of Reichstag fires, false flag operations, and election interference, even for an FBI that convulsed the nation for years with its racial, Russia, and related hoaxes. And all of it went unpunished.
Similarly, it is a short and straight line from the 1960s Allen Dulles-led/assassination-era CIA to avowed Communist John Brennan to the endless intelligence failures in the Middle East to the Trump-hating and openly insubordinate directorship of Gina Haspel.
In the main, both agencies are largely comprised of men and women without moral integrity or ethical guardrails. Humanities and ethnic studies majors and outright psychopaths are given assignments as "intelligence analysts" (wow, and a few of the more veteran CIA desk jockeys can even name the capital of Türkiye without Googling it — so impressive!).
Over the past thirty years or so, both agencies became a jobs program for "diverse" individuals hired on the basis of ideological allegiance, people who would otherwise be virtually unemployable in the private sector.
The real litmus test for new hires with the IC is a progressive worldview coupled with a demonstrated willingness, indeed an eagerness, to target anybody perceived to be a traditional conservative or an ally of President Donald Trump.
If these IC analysts want to put their progressive activism to a less legally dubious cause, they should be encouraged to find jobs in the private sector as baristas, community organizers (aka racial agitators), or human resource (HR) bean counters.
Throughout the IC, far-left biological grown-ups play-act as if they are still children, a pretend game of cowboys and Indians for putative adults. They make believe they are engaging in acts of heroism, as if they are leading protagonists in an Ian Fleming novel.
Yet, for every Mike Spann of the CIA, it seems there are ten whose ideology more closely matches that of the repulsive Brennan or Leon Panetta. The latter two might enjoy some delicious Vietnamese food at a restaurant called Pho Gyu.
And for every good and honorable FBI agent (like whistleblowers Marcus Allen and Stephen Friend), it seems there are ten who have more in common with Andrew McCabe or Peter Strzok.
In gang-tackling the inestimable corruption, abuse, and profiteering within the CIA and FBI (and IC more broadly), honest and courageous leaders like John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel aren't looking to herd a group of unruly cats so much as they are looking to tame a pit of hissing vipers. Godspeed to both men. 
The brothers are previous contributors to Enter Stage Right.
