Dispiriting but unsurprising given the personnel involved.
Too bad the DOJ hadn’t (apparently, or at least that we know of) found anything in Greene’s conduct worthy of interest. That could have made it a bit tougher for the Georgians to give her a clean bill of health.
I subscribe to The New Republic (TNR), and they aren’t right leaning at all. A little quirky, sometimes, but they’re pretty liberal. Are you possibly confusing them with another news outlet, possibly the very right leaning The National Review?
Yes, you’re correct - I was thinking of the National Review (Buckley’s thing). Not the most similar titles. (I also conflate the Heritage Foundation with the Federalist Society.)
IF you actually read the article it makes a bit more sense. The guy refuses to disclose his previous employers, other than to say that they are part of the department of defense and department of state. So yeah he probably is about closest thing to an actual deep state member as you’re going to find, as opposed to some EPA bureaucrat just doing his job who is the sort of person the wingnuts usually accuse of being deep state.
Did, and I always associated “deep state” with the Repubs’ paranoid boogeyman perception of some faceless, undermining bureaucrat, and not some out-in-the-open congressional candidate, regardless of how strangely evasive Flowers is.