The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda

by Jason Chaffetz

Overview

The New York Time bestselling expose on the politicized federal bureaucracy that actively works to promote the Democrat agenda and undermine President Trump.

The liberal media loves to characterize the Obama years as free of scandal. They pretend this is true because virtually every office in the executive branch worked to withhold evidence of wrongdoing, silence witness testimony, destroy federal records, classify embarrassing information, and retaliate against truth tellers. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, freely promoting the illusion that everything he does is the new Watergate.

Sometimes even conservatives portray the Deep State as nothing more than dumb inefficient bureaucracy. In fact, it’s the opposite; the Deep State is intentional, unconstitutional, and organized.

In Deep State, Jason Chaffetz reveals an entrenched leadership within the civil service that resists exposure, accountability, and responsibility.  At the highest levels, they fight back, outlast, and work the system for their own advantage.  And they certainly don’t like disruptive forces such as Donald Trump. 

As Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Chaffetz was the tip of the spear challenging the Deep State and trying to hold them accountable. He and his colleagues took on the powerful forces at the IRS, the EPA, the DOJ, the Department of State, and more.  The deeper he dove in, the more shocking he found the brazen approach by the power brokers.  The balance of power has shifted. The Deep State has gotten used to operating anonymously and without consequence.  This is a problem bigger than we can even imagine and getting worse.  Unless we do something dramatic to wrest back control, we risk losing the ability to successfully challenge wrongdoing by the most powerful bureaucracy in the world. 

In Deep State, Chaffetz highlights the Deep State’s tactics, illuminates the problems, and offers a way to fight back and win. It is important to expose the stories, but if the American People are going to win, Congress is going to have to do things differently.  This book helps the concerned citizen understand what must be done—so they can demand real change.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062851567
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/18/2018
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jason Chaffetz is an American politician and Fox News contributor. He was elected as a U.S. Representative from Utah in 2008 after spending 16 years in the local business community. When he left Congress in 2017, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Elizabeth Warren's Big Dream: The CFPB 1

Chapter 2 What Don't They Want Congress to See? 13

Chapter 3 Money, Sex, and the EPA 23

Chapter 4 The Deep State Fights Back 43

Chapter 5 The War on Whistleblowers 51

Chapter 6 Contempt of Congress 69

Chapter 7 Lying to Congress 77

Chapter 8 Face-to-Face with the Deep State 95

Chapter 9 They Think We Can't Handle Truth 111

Chapter 10 Flouting Subpoenas 131

Chapter 11 The Deep State's Nightmare 151

Chapter 12 The Wall: Why the Deep State Doesn't Want It Built 169

Chapter 13 Taming the Deep State 185

Epilogue 219

Acknowledgments 225

Index 229

Editorial Reviews

08/20/2018
The “deep state” is less a sinister conspiracy than a risk-deflecting bureaucratic juggernaut, according to this wonky jeremiad against the executive branch. Chaffetz, a Fox News commentator and former Congressman who was chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, paints federal agencies as a “vast, self-perpetuating bureaucracy” that will “weaponize everything in their power to destroy President Trump,” but devotes just two chapters to that ostensible struggle, with sketchy rehashes of anti-Trump intelligence leaks, anti-Trump emails by two FBI employees, and foot-dragging on Trump’s immigration agenda by ICE higher-ups and sanctuary cities. Most of the book recounts bureaucratic obstruction of Chaffetz’s committee work during the Obama administration, including investigations into sexual harassment at the EPA; the ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious, which facilitated arms sales to Mexican cartels; and Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. He paints this as a war of attrition, with bureaucrats stymieing his inquiries by ignoring subpoenas, lying under oath, withholding documents, retaliating against whistle-blowers, and sending a State Department lawyer to shadow him during a fact-finding trip on the Benghazi consulate attack. Chaffetz’s “deep state” dudgeon is overheated—his subject’s main crimes seem to be incompetence and dodging blame, not subversion—but his critique of executive branch corruption and secrecy is cogent and timely. Agent: Dave Larabell, CAA. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

You will gain a whole new appreciation for the success of Donald Trump after reading Chaffetz’s account of the Deep State army working overtime to help his opponents and subvert his allies.”
— Donald J. Trump, Jr

“Long after you finish this book, you’ll be fuming about our out-of-control federal bureaucracy.  We cannot afford to tolerate the outsourcing of our governance to career bureaucrats whose only loyalty is to big government.”—
— Senator Mike Lee

“Jason Chaffetz first fought the Deep State from the inside. Now he has written a powerful guide to how it works and how to fight it. Deep State is not to be missed.” — Peter Schweizer

“A truly chilling call to action that will confirm your worst fears about who our government really serves and how much power Washington DC’s persistent bureaucracy has amassed with help from a complicit press, and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Chaffetz reveals how he became a target of the Deep State, and describes the infuriating lengths to which these actors will go to monitor and neutralize threats to their agenda —including placing spies in Congressional offices. You may be startled and shaken, and you will come to know the Deep State is real.” — Sharyl Attkisson

From the Publisher

Jason Chaffetz first fought the Deep State from the inside. Now he has written a powerful guide to how it works and how to fight it. Deep State is not to be missed.

Peter Schweizer

A truly chilling call to action that will confirm your worst fears about who our government really serves and how much power Washington DC’s persistent bureaucracy has amassed with help from a complicit press, and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Chaffetz reveals how he became a target of the Deep State, and describes the infuriating lengths to which these actors will go to monitor and neutralize threats to their agenda —including placing spies in Congressional offices. You may be startled and shaken, and you will come to know the Deep State is real.

Sharyl Attkisson

Long after you finish this book, you’ll be fuming about our out-of-control federal bureaucracy.  We cannot afford to tolerate the outsourcing of our governance to career bureaucrats whose only loyalty is to big government.”—

Senator Mike Lee

You will gain a whole new appreciation for the success of Donald Trump after reading Chaffetz’s account of the Deep State army working overtime to help his opponents and subvert his allies.”

Donald J. Trump