Bureaucrats believe they are the Fourth Branch of the federal government. They literally believe and act like they do not work for the President of the United States and have no obligation to be accountable to anyone but themselves.
This is not hyperbole, and the #resistance is not limited to malicious compliance, passive noncompliance, or anything so benign. They are willing to destroy not just documents but actual property and records and call on police forces to expel agents of the president and even employees they don't trust.
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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 19, 2025
If they were Republicans, the entire Establishment would be screaming bloody murder, speaking of Constitutional crises, and calling on citizens to storm the Bastille. But since they are Biden liberals, it is seen as kind of cute and even admirable.
The Daily Caller has exclusive access to documents, eyewitness reports, and photographs showing the extent to which bureaucrats at one agency went beyond the law and reason to thwart the president, the duly appointed president of the US Institute for Peace Kenneth Jackson, and employees for DOGE.
USIP leadership orchestrated extensive internal sabotage before DOGE personnel arrived to implement Trump’s mandated leadership changes, according to a Trump administration official involved in the USIP leadership transition who requested anonymity.
Contrary to earlier reporting by The Washington Post and The New York Times, which claimed the institute merely locked its doors, photographic evidence exclusively obtained by the DCNF shows locks had been physically removed from the exterior doors, effectively destroying entry mechanisms. The official said USIP staff removed the locks.
Moreover, staff contacted Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in an attempt to prevent DOGE personnel from entering, citing barricaded doors and security concerns. MPD officers later confirmed these obstructions upon arrival, further discrediting claims that USIP had only engaged in passive resistance. Much of USIP’s leadership, including Moose, barricaded themselves on the building’s fifth floor, closing window shades and blocking access points in a last-ditch effort to resist DOGE’s entry, the official told the DCNF.
It's like the plot of a bad movie, from which former president George Moose probably got the idea in the first place. No doubt in his own mind he was a hero defending the last bastion from the barbarians at the gate, but the reality was much more prosaic: a petty bureaucrat was defending his little empire from people coming to hold him accountable for his actions.
The obstruction didn’t end at damaged doors. Prior to Monday’s confrontation, USIP leaders disabled telephone lines, internet connections and other IT infrastructure, forcing communication among staff through walkie-talkies, according to the official. This deliberate effort to disrupt operations delayed DOGE’s entry and added to the confusion during Monday’s standoff.
Flyers distributed internally further revealed an organized, premeditated resistance strategy. “Greet the guest(s) but do not engage in conversation and immediately notify the on-duty lieutenant,” read the flyers, referring explicitly to anticipated DOGE officials, photos and names of whom were included. The DCNF exclusively obtained one such flyer, including a photograph of it sitting inside a security guard booth outside the building. These flyers were posted throughout the facility in the lead-up to Monday’s confrontation, the official said.
As I said, a bad movie, in which brave civilians make their stand against marauding terrorists from a shady organization dubbed "Department of Government Efficiency."
Efficiency? There ain't no room for efficiency in government! How dare they?
Man the barricades!
The opening salvo of the executive branch-USIP clash came Friday night when Jackson, the newly appointed USIP president, arrived at headquarters with DOGE staffers and FBI agents to enforce Trump’s leadership changes, the official said. A USIP lawyer, apparently recognizing a few faces from the flyer, carped that the order was unlawful and invalid, prompting the Trump officials to withdraw for the night. Over the weekend, Moose and other USIP leaders intensified their resistance plot by holding an emergency meeting, firing the institute’s security contractors (a company called Inter-Con) to block DOGE access — a move the administration official said was illegal — and implementing lockdown measures, including removing the electronic access systems Inter-Con employees used to enter as well as destroying physical locks entirely, the official told the DCNF. Inter-Con declined to comment.
By Monday afternoon, DOGE personnel returned to USIP headquarters and were denied entry, prompting institute staff to call MPD. The staff expected police officers to side with them against the Trump administration’s takeover attempt — instead, MPD officers arrived in response to a complaint from the U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin’s office, which had alerted them to reports of noncompliance at the institute’s headquarters, according to the police report. MPD officers entered the facility through emergency stairs after encountering drawn window shades and barricaded doors on the building’s fifth floor, eventually escorting Moose and other holdout staff off the premises. The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment.
Liberals howl about "norms" while applauding such lawlessness. Their belief is that the government is their personal fiefdom, the federal budget their piggy bank, and that government policy should be set by faceless bureaucrats who know best. Presidents come and go, but the permanent bureaucracy runs things.
What stands out about this incident is not that a Biden appointee got too big for his britches. One rogue official is hardly shocking in a government that employs between 2-3 million people, depending on how you count.
No, what really is interesting is that the people under him thought he was right and complied, at least most of them. As the leaks to the Daily Caller News Foundation show, at least one was willing to leak the gory details and expose the extent of corruption within the government.
If it were one guy, it would be an interesting snapshot of the psychology of a deranged autocratic functionary appointed by Biden. But that it was at least the majority of his employees joining in that should scare the hell out of you.
And most of all, the fact that so many liberals inside politics, in the Pravda Media, and in the voting population as whole approve of this tyrannical behavior should scare you most of all.
