Deep State proof – in search behavior

Deep State proof – in search behavior
By Terry A. Hurlbut
The phrase Deep State means more than President Donald Trump’s “sour grapes” name for “civil servants just doing their jobs.” To describe career bureaucrats as such, has lately become fashionable, especially after the Trump administration started firing people wholesale. But most people, when they lose their jobs in company downsizing, simply dust off their resumes (or curricula vitarum in the academic realm), search for job-match sites, and maybe order new copies of Richard Nelson Bolles’ classic What Color is Your Parachute? They don’t search the Internet for criminal lawyers, or try to bone up on organized-crime law. That is what these “civil servants” have been doing. So if “the Deep State is cool,” does that include criminal activities?
The Deep State loses out
Early on Thursday morning (February 13), Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge published his first piece noticing some odd search trends. He began by noticing the first firings, as The New York Times breathlessly reported them. By then, the administration, on the recommendation of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), had fired “at least 9,000 federal workers.” Durden also referred to his article, two days earlier, describing an “off-the-books shadow government.” This “shadow government” consisted of eight non-government organizations (NGOs), all with mission statements “advocating democracy.” As X influencer DataRepublican first described them, all received funding from USAID, which now is all but shut down. They are:
• International Republican Institute,
• National Democratic Institute,
• Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,
• National Endowment for Democracy,
• International Foundation for Electoral Systems,
• Internews,
• Center for International Private Enterprise, and
• Solidarity Center.
A word of caution is in order: as many Republican names appeared in DataRepublican’s analysis as Democratic names. One Republican name raises a special alarm: that of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Trump’s candidate for U.N. Ambassador. She appears, ironically, among the leadership of the National Democratic Institute. Perhaps she has thoroughly reinvented herself, as other “Uniparty” personalities have failed – or refused – to do.
More broadly, most of the above NGOs date back to the Reagan era. The most charitable explanation of their attitude is that they are still fighting the Soviet Union, long after that polity dissolved. Hence their hostility to all things Russian.
The search patterns
Donald Trump was never a Cold War ideologue, and never developed antipathy for antipathy’s sake toward any foreign power. His background is in real estate, not statecraft. (This might make him slow to recognize that Communist China has the same imperial ambitions the Soviet Union had. But it also lets him avoid treating the Russian Federation as if it were still the Soviet Union.)
In any case, Trump has finally shut off the fire hydrant keeping those NGOs awash in taxpayers’ funding. That, plus the mass firings, have put a lot of people out of work.
But why is D.C. generating large-volume Internet search trends on phrases like “Criminal Defense Lawyer” and “RICO Law”? Mark Mitchell, head pollster at Rasmussen Reports, saw it first.
Over three times more people in DC are googling "Criminal Defense Lawyer" than anywhere else in the US!
https://x.com/Mark_R_Mitchell/status/1889501267317096866
A “higher-education consultant” named Rich Ellefritz ran his own comparison.
Wow! Had to check for myself, but there was a large spike in search terms for “defense lawyer” since mid January with by far the most searches coming from Washington D.C.
https://x.com/RichEllefritz/status/1889538332310344016
He then ran a five-year search on Google Trends on two related search phrases: “defense lawyer” and “criminal attorney.” That five-year interactive report shows a spike in interest in “criminal attorney” in the week of June 16-22, 2024. The trend collapsed in the next week – only to return at about 75 percent strength in the week of January 26 to February 1, 2025.
Another user mentioned a few other search terms getting inordinate attention:
Some other DC-area searches worth looking into… “RICO statutes”, “Penalties for Criminal Conspiracy Against Rights”, “What is the definition of Treason?”, “What are Bivens Actions”, and “Is tossing your cellmate's salad considered Vegan?”
https://x.com/NoelCooke_/status/1889744649587216869
Not exactly “What color is your parachute”!
What are they worried about?
By the way, Wexlaw defines a Bivens action as:
a lawsuit for damages when a federal officer who is acting in the color of federal authority allegedly violates the U.S. Constitution by federal officers acting.
Index case: Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). The only federal officials who enjoy immunity from Bivens actions are:
• The President (see Nixon v. Fitzgerald, which formed the starting point for the Supreme Court’s primer on Presidential immunity), and
• Administrative Law Judges for federal agencies (see Butz v. Economou).
The FBI agents involved in the Mar-A-Lago Raid are almost certainly not immune. So elements of the Deep State are worried that Trump might sue them personally for the conduct of some of the investigations against him.
Yesterday, Tyler Durden returned to his theme, having noticed other odd search terms from the D.C. area. For example, WikiLeaks noticed this extra search activity:
Washington DC searches soar for “Swiss bank” (yellow), “offshore bank” (green), “wire money” (red) and “IBAN” (blue).
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1890177866085855461
IBAN stands for International Bank Account Number. This refers to a standard for account numbers at banks worldwide. Conclusion: elements of the Deep State are trying to protect fortunes from seizure, by DOGE or a “redirected” FBI. This suggests these bureaucrats have some ill-gotten gains, or at least gains subject to clawback. This could refer to new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s clawback of $20 billion “parked” in an outside account. The outgoing administrator tried to fund eight ultra-environmentalist NGOs.
The Biden EPA tossed $20 billion of “gold bars off the Titanic”. BIG UPDATE! We found the gold bars and they are now being recovered for you, the hardworking American taxpayer. Here are more of the details:
https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1889840040622321778
More disturbingly still, Google Trends shows heightened interest in terms like “wipe,” “erase,” “wipe hard drive,” and “BleachBit.”
Deep State Agent Peter Strzok
Now: remember Peter Strzok? Christina Laila at The Gateway Pundit noticed yesterday afternoon that he had wiped his X account. But of course he can’t sanitize other X accounts, like that at House Judiciary:
Your FBI At Work:
Lisa Page (on text): Trump’s not going to become President, right? Right?
Peter Strzok: No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it.
https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1671544231209447425
Those texts go back to August of 2016 – during that election campaign. Kash Patel, in an interview with Shawn Ryan, discussed those messages.
Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have settled with the Justice Department over alleged privacy rights violations after the release of their disparaging text messages leveraged by former President Trump to challenge the Russia investigation during his presidency.
https://x.com/ShawnRyanShow/status/1830638508546896008
Strzok and Page sued over the release of those messages – but then had to settle. That was during the 2024 campaign. Christina Laila provided this transcript of Kash Patel’s interview:
What the deep state uses the most to cover up their corruption is an illegal application of the classification system. Remember the Lovebirds’ texts from… This is a beauty.
The Lovebirds’ texts from the FBI, DOJ, and Russiagate—Strzok and Page were texting each other. They were running the Russiagate investigation against Trump.
They were the heads of the counterintelligence unit at the FBI, and they were having an extramarital affair together. You can’t make this stuff up.
They’re sending each other texts about how much they hate Trump and are going to create an insurance policy to stop Trump. Then we finally find those text messages. You know what the FBI and DOJ did for a year?
They redacted them to Congressional investigators and the Congressmen and women running the oversight of their agency. That’s just one example. But it gets even better.
Here’s the deep state in full circle. Just last week, do you know what Strzok and Page received from the Department of Justice? What? A [$2 million] payout to settle a lawsuit that Strzok and Page brought for the improper disclosure of their personal text messages on FBI phones. And the DOJ just rewarded them.
They broke the law. They broke the chain of command. They broke every regulation there is in the FBI. They weaponized the system of justice against a political target they hated.
We found those text messages, and we got them declassified finally in full when I became Deputy Director of National Intelligence.
And the world has now seen them, and they can read them. And that’s the best form of transparency. That’s why I want this 24/7 declassification office. Don’t have me regurgitate it to you. Read it. Get the documents, get the files, get the memos.
But the deep state came full circle and gave these guys a payday for rigging a presidential election and breaking the law.
Incidentally, the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Patel its favorable report. Patel’s nomination is now on the Senate Executive Calendar, with five nominees ahead of him. (Rep. Stefanik’s UN nomination is at the top.)
Clearly several elements of the Deep State are worried about everything from civil (or criminal) asset forfeiture to prison. One unconfirmed report mentioned “death penalty” as another search phrase generating unusual interest. That suggests that some people are worrying about standing trial for treason. In America, treason strictly means playing an active role in war against the United States, or helping its enemies. But if that help gets someone killed, that would be a capital offense.
Again, this is not the behavior of someone looking to reinvent himself after losing a job. This is how someone behaves, who has broken the law and knows it. It also reinforces the idea that reconciliation, in the Civilizational Populist Revolution, can be entirely bloodless, and use already well-established courts.
Link to:
The article:
https://cnav.news/2025/02/17/news/deep-state-proof-search-behavior/

Tyler Durden’s series:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-internet-searches-criminal-defense-lawyer-rico-law-erupt-doge-drain-swamp
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-swamp-uniparty-unmasked-these-seven-ngos
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1889172190282821690.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eruption-bleachbit-wipe-hard-drive-offshore-bank-searches-dc-suggest-deep-state-panic

Mark Mitchell’s post and aftermath:
https://x.com/Mark_R_Mitchell/status/1889501267317096866
https://x.com/RichEllefritz/status/1889538332310344016
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=Defense%20lawyer,Criminal%20attorney&hl=en-US&hl=en&tz=360
https://x.com/NoelCooke_/status/1889744649587216869

Bivens action defined:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bivens_action
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/403/388/

Other search terms showing prominence:
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1890177866085855461
https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1889840040622321778

Peter Strzok sanitizes his X account:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/peter-strzok-wipes-his-x-account-clean-as/
https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1671544231209447425
https://x.com/ShawnRyanShow/status/1830638508546896008

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