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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.
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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.
Fast forward fifty years, and the idea of a permanent power structure is waved off as paranoia or some Q-kook conspiracy theory… it’s just some excuse people use when they don’t like the outcome.
But the historical record says otherwise.
Nixon faced this “permanent apparatus” that actively undermined him. He tried to maneuver his way around it and even managed it to a certain extent, but in the end, it swallowed him whole.
The NYT piece keeps going.
Over 13 months, in wartime, an enlisted man had stolen an estimated 5,000 documents, most of them classified, from the N.S.C. and delivered them to the nation’s top uniformed commanders. It was time to brief the president
Nixon tried to contain the Deep State. When he learned that senior military officials had been running a covert intelligence operation inside his White House, he saw it was a direct challenge to presidential authority.
The NYT piece goes on:
Nixon was astonished. Few presidents had faced such a brazen and illegal challenge. He called it ‘a federal offense of the highest order.’
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Nixon demanded that Admiral Moorer be prosecuted. Mitchell reminded the commander in chief, obliquely, of all the secret operations he had going, in Cambodia and elsewhere, and the risks of exposure in any such trial.
That moment was the big hinge.
The president of the United States knew what had happened was a federal offense of the highest order and demanded prosecution.
But when he was reminded of the geopolitical risks and the exposure of other secret operations, he backpedaled and went with a strategy that kept the scandal quiet.
He chose containment over confrontation.
The NYT piece continues:
“What has been done has been done,” said the attorney general. Instead, Mitchell proposed dissolving the liaison office where Radford worked and reassigning Admiral Welander “to Kokomo, or Indiana or anywhere we want.” Radford would also be transferred far away, and wiretapped, while a security officer was installed for the first time at the National Security Council. As for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the attorney general proposed that he “sit down with Tom Moorer” and convey the message “This ballgame’s over with.”
Nixon accepted all of Mitchell’s recommendations.
The decision to keep it contained was deliberate.
The NYT piece explains:
“My recollection,” Haldeman said in a 1988 oral history, “is that at the time of the Watergate-related hearings, when this issue came up, that I was told … we were not to testify as to anything on this, or allude to it in any way, or even indicate that it existed, because of the president’s concern as to what this would do to the status of the military … from an image and public opinion and public support viewpoint.”
And for anyone who still thinks all this resistance Nixon faced came from anti-war hippies or Dems, the Times makes something else clear…
It was not the far left that most actively sought to sabotage the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy but the hard right, not lowly pencil-pushers in the civil service but the most senior commanders at the Pentagon.
Yes, the Deep State is very real and one helluva evil supervillain.
Thankfully, President Trump approached the exact same threat very differently.
Where Nixon chose containment, Trump chose confrontation. President Trump treats the Deep State bureaucracy as his enemy.
Fascinating piece appearing in unlikely venue. TDLR: Nixon was the victim of a deep-state plot so complex and enormous he could not fathom it. Trump is smarter: purging his enemies before they purge him. https://t.co/3yZDbLbfcy
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) February 8, 2026
Trump’s respect for Nixon is documented. But what may matter more is that he watched how Nixon handled the institutional threat and reached a very different conclusion.
The Times piece explains:
Mr. Trump has long expressed admiration for Nixon. As early as 1982, the rising tycoon told the disgraced ex-president, “I think you are one of this country’s great men.” Not many prominent people in that era expressed such a sentiment. Both men achieved success at young ages. Both men, at once craving and scorning the approval of the elites, remained resentful of the establishment that they came to lead.
They differ in two crucial respects. Mr. Trump’s purge of the federal government since returning to the presidency has displayed a ruthlessness toward the perceived “enemy within” that Nixon, despite similar inclinations, could never conjure — even when faced with criminal insubordination.
When Trump won in 2016, the Deep State hostility became highly visible. There were intelligence leaks, fake Russia investigations, impeachment drives, and constant nasty media coverage, all unfolding with rapid-fire reinforcement. It was a well-coordinated attack, and Trump fought back and won.
The only time the Deep State gained ground was the 2020 COVID-election sham, when chaos, lockdowns, mail-in voting, and nonstop media bashing came together to create the most insanely bizarre and fake political environment of our lifetime.
But here’s the part no one in that Deep State machine thought about…
Trump didn’t go away.
He didn’t spend the next four years licking his wounds. He watched how the system operated, paid attention to who moved against him and how, and he adjusted. By the time he returned, he wasn’t the same outsider who walked into Washington in 2016. By the time he returned, he wasn’t the same outsider who strolled into the Swamp in 2016. He had a much better understanding of how the Deep State works.
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And that’s where the Deep State screwed up. If they could rewind the clock back to 2020 knowing what they know now, they might have just let Trump take his win. Because the 2024 version of Trump is a battle-tested beast. He’s less trusting and willing to destroy the system that tried to bury him.
We recently published a piece on President Trump’s latest move to purge the Deep State, and it’s a doozy. If this holds up at the Supreme Court, Trump will have hit the Deep State with a nuke.
The Office of Personnel Management finalized the rules that will allow President Trump to reclassify up to 50,000 federal employees as “at-will” workers.
Do you know what that means?
That means if the Supreme Court upholds this move, Trump can fire tens of thousands of entrenched bureaucrats (Deep State) who shape federal policy.
This is a direct nuclear strike right at the heart of the permanent administrative state.
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Schedule F, which has been renamed “Schedule Policy/Career,” isn’t new. It was introduced during Trump’s first term. But the goal hasn’t changed: crack open the layer of federal bureaucrats who influence policy but are nearly impossible to fire.
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For decades, these career officials have operated under powerful civil service protections. Removing them requires appeals, hearings, outside oversight, and independent review, and all of this can take years, and even then, they still might not lose their job.
But schedule F changes all that.
If this goes through, any federal employee who influences policy can be moved into this new classification and become “at-will.”
That means no independent appeal rights.
You can read this entire piece here:
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Fifty years later, what makes this story matter isn’t just the Cold War drama or the sealed transcripts. It’s the scary reality that the presidency is only one small part of the Swamp. The people and institutions that stay in place from one administration to the next have their own interests, loyalties, and need to self-preserve.
The New York Times presents this story as an unearthed chapter in Nixon’s history, and it is. But it’s also something more, intentionally or not. This is documented proof that the Deep State is real and they do shape outcomes.
SYou can read the entire New York Times piece here.
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