DHS Resistance Leader Burned in Hidden Camera Video Detailing How They Will Fight Kristi Noem

streiff reporting for RedState 

For an "apolitical" civil service, politics certainly seems to color many of its activities. Last week, President Trump placed 50-60 senior executives with the US Agency for International Development on administrative leave (see Trump Suspends As Many As 60 Senior Bureaucrats for Trying to Evade His Executive Orders – RedState) for attempting to sabotage his efforts to cut grants to such worthy project as transgender Nigerian dance troupes; see WATCH: Press Hounds Karoline Leavitt About USAID, and She Comes Off the Top Rope With the Receipts.

Across the federal government, we hear stories of resistance brewing. The stories are probably exaggerated but real nonetheless. And every once in a while, one of the goobers gets out over their skis and gets burned. This one, thanks to James O'Keefe and the poor girl who had to go on a date with him.

The target was a guy named Brandon Wright, who is a GS-14 IT manager at the Department of Homeland Security.

GS-14 is sorta the lieutenant colonel level in the Army, and he makes pretty good money.

And no, a Ph.D. is not a requirement for merit promotions from within Civil Service.

Here are some highlights.

Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for DHS, was recorded saying that the agency’s career bureaucrats do not allow political appointees to interfere with their operations. He told the undercover reporter, "Kristi Noem? I f*cking hate her."

“The secretaries can set the priorities for the department, but they can't actually tell us what to do,” Wright told an undercover OMG journalist, later adding, "The truth is, we don't let them [secretaries] get in our way.” He said, "If we don’t agree with those priorities, there is a lot of room for interpretation, in terms of how we interpret what those priorities are."

He compared the government's bureaucratic structure to a septic tank, saying that there are layers that allow employees to filter directives in a way that minimizes their impact. “There’s a lot of layers like that in the government. And by the time the actual marching orders get to, like, me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship,” he said.

“She doesn’t know her a**,” he remarked, adding, “The Department of Homeland Security could fall on her f*cking head, and she wouldn’t recognize what it is. Kristi Noem doesn't know sh*t” He also expressed frustration over her leadership style, saying, “To say that I am not excited about this would be the most epic understatement.”

According to O'Keefe:

The Department of Homeland Security provided the following statement to O’Keefe Media Group: 

“Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation … The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent.”

Just because you are part of an apolitical service, like the Civil Service or Armed Forces, doesn't mean you can't have political opinions. What it means is that you can't let your politics interfere with the job, and you can't carry out a guerilla war against your agency's leadership because you disagree with their politics. Hopefully, a few more instances like this will convince the little resisters to settle down and do the work they are told to do, for which they are getting paid.