🧩 BND Motif Index · M753
Deep state
The unelected bureaucracy, the FBI, the agencies, the career officials, is said to be the real power, running things whoever wins, until a leader brings it to heel.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Who rules🗂️ Conspiracy
- 6claims filed under it
- 5right shows it came up on
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Stymied by staff
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Spoils system
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 FBI monitored Trump family travel and Susie wiles' phone 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-07
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Intelligence agencies use bribery and blackmail to get what they want.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-23 “The Obama administration used intelligence agencies and the DNC to manufacture a fake dossier against Donald Trump.”
🎙️ Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words - 2026-10-23 “The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story swung the election.”
🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) 🎙️ Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words 🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-12 “The CIA has offered a buyout of eight months' pay and benefits to its entire workforce.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-10 “The FBI and DHS operate under the direction of the president.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show - 2026-10-07 “The FBI monitored Susie Wiles's phone calls with her lawyers.”
🎙️ The Benny Show
M753 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-13 · what this is · how the index works