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Rocking the Swamp: Agency Wide Resistance (ON TAPE) May Violate Anti-Conspiracy Laws Against US
from FOX Baltimore
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WASHINGTON (Circa) —
The Justice Department, Department of State and Government Accountability Office are looking into three employees affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) after they were featured in a secretly recorded sting video. The video purports to show the employees may have committed ethics violations or used government resources to engage in political activities.
The video is part of a series, "Deep State Unmasked," by Project Veritas, an activist group led by James O'Keefe that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations to embarrass its targets or get them fired. The videos are heavily edited and lack context.
In the series, O'Keefe sent his colleagues to expose a handful of government employees who are involved with the Democratic Socialists of America. An auditor at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a State Department agency analyst and a former chief of staff at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid each discussed efforts to "resist" Trump administration policies from within executive agencies.
Three of those employees are now under review, according to statements from GAO and the Justice and State Departments. Project Veritas filed legal complaints with the agencies alleging their employees were "taking organized action to thwart administration policies" and may have violated federal laws prohibiting the use of government time and resources for political activities.
"This is the sort of personification, putting a face to the name of this deep state is," O'Keefe told Sinclair Broadcast Group in an interview Wednesday.
O'Keefe claims the undercover recordings provide evidence of a "cabal of federal employees" acting to undermine President Donald Trump's agenda and violate federal laws. "It shows other people resisting, gloating about how they can't get fired, talking about the laws that they're breaking. They're quite brazen about it, quite arrogant."
Dr. Raymond Batvinis is a former FBI counterintelligence official who spent 25 years working in the federal government. He said he does not believe the type of conspiracy O'Keefe claims to expose exists, in part, because it is not feasible.
"As a purely practical matter, I just don't see how it could happen, particularly at the mid-level of government employees," Batvinis noted.
The federal government employs more than 2 million full-time workers across the country and across agencies. Each agency has its own culture and is led by political appointees."There's no one individual or tiny cabal or clique of people who are manipulating these things," Batvinis stressed.
Jared Holt, a research associate at Right Wing Watch, said O'Keefe's focus on a government conspiracy run by Democratic Socialists of America was "laughable."
"It does not prove a 'deep state' and I think the idea that the DSA has any sort of meaningful institutional power in the federal government is entirely laughable that this moment in history," he said.
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