When it comes to disemboweling a government agency, it’s really hard to beat Matt Taibbi’s take on the CIA:
Before Trump was even a Republican nominee, a CIA Director relayed “concerns” to the FBI that “served as the basis” for years of grueling investigation that would paralyze his presidency; after his election, as we’ve learned all summer, CIA then cooked up a bogus intelligence report saying Trump won with Russian help; CIA leaked its balls off to papers like the New York Times about how Moscow worked to “install” Trump in the White House; CIA helped topple Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn by telling every reporter on earth he was a “clown” who said mean things about the CIA and secretly conspired with Russia; CIA warned foreign countries not to share intelligence with Trump because Russia held “leverages of pressure” on him; CIA stuck fictional campaign research about “compromising personal and financial information” Russia had in a report that was leaked to CNN in less time than it takes for fleas to mate; CIA accused Trump of treason; CIA got Trump impeached; CIA leaked stories that Trump let Russians kill Americans for sport; CIA banded together to call a true Hunter Biden story a Russian influence operation; CIA spent the last half-century overturning foreign governments and in this one is trying do the same at home, in such blatant violation of its charter that 77 million people last year voted to have it shot like a lame horse… But sure, yes, let’s make sure the CIA is at the President’s side when we’re trying to negotiate a peace settlement. What could go wrong?
Yeah, those days of relying on the “experts” in government agencies — any of them — are as gone as last year’s flatulence.
That’s the way all these entrenched deep state and life long workers of local and state and federal government. They think their shit doesn’t stink. They think they can do whatever the fuck they want. And they shit on and try to sabotage anyone who isn’t like them.
I hope the budget gets cut to more agencies and schools and grants for bullshit so that the govt hacks get hacked out of a job. Trump won’t be able to cut them all but even if he can reduce the number of hacks that is helpful.
# Fuck alphabet agencies
# Fuck career politicians
It will take more than reduced budgets and employee counts. If the entity cannot (for various reasons) be entirely shut down, as in nuke it from orbit, ( eg. USAID) then the only way to properly deal with it is a decapitation strike.
For every, and I mean *every* minion in the top four levels of the org. chart. That is, every deputy blah-blah, every assistant deputy fart-catcher, or under-secretary fart-catcher, every head of ‘the office of’, director, assistant secretary fart-catcher, and give hard attention to shutting down the majority of the remora-like ‘offices’ which hang on to structure, especially those which advertise their discriminatory intentions, through their name(s), such as ‘office of global women’s issues’, ‘office of diversity and inclusion’. It is these structures and the un-elected bureaucratic power behind them which instantiates the deep state.
See for one example. See for another. Of course that chart is not ‘official’, the official one is here:
“slightly” redacted by those who purport to know better than thee and me.
Ooops. WordPress did not like the links. So, in the raw:
State: https://2021-2025.state.gov/department-of-state-organization-chart/
CIA by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency#/media/File:CIA_ORG_Structure.svg
and CIA by the CIA: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78B05708A000400080002-0.pdf
Just relocate the HQ, and all subsidiary offices, to McMurdo Sound. Hold a lottery for indoor desk space – everyone else gets a tent with solar-power.