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Trump’s Last Move Against the “Deep State” Remains in Bureaucratic Limbo

Trump’s Last Move Against the “Deep State” Remains in Bureaucratic Limbo

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John Schindler
Feb 11, 2021
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Three weeks ago, just days before the Trump administration came to its end, the White House made its final move against the Intelligence Community by installing Michael Ellis, a MAGA sycophant, as the National Security Agency’s General Counsel, that is, top lawyer. This constituted an unusual and unsavory bureaucratic sleight of hand since the administr…

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