Welcome to the backside of the Deep State. Project Veritas just released their first video in a new series of undercover investigations that will work on “unmasking the deep state.” The subject of the first video is probably having a very bad day at work right about now.

Stuart Karaffa is a State Department employee, who is also deeply involved in the Democratic Socialists of America movement in Washington D.C. And it’s not that he’s bragging about his DSA membership – it’s that he is actively working on DSA issues at work, and bragging about how he’s covered all his tracks and won’t be fired.

Mr. Karaffa’s loyalties seem to be with DSA, not with his employer.

Karaffa told an undercover Project Veritas journalist that he performs DSA activism while at work for the State Department. He explained that he drafts DSA communications while on the job at State Department:

“… I’m careful about it. I don’t leave a paper trail, like I leave emails, and like any press s**t that comes up I leave that until after 5:30. But as soon as 5:31 hits, got my like draft messages ready to send out.”

Karaffa also admits that on behalf of DSA he monitors Virginia political news online while at work:

“You could put two and two together probably. With like web traffic…. So with web traffic, I mean I could make the case before a court of law that- I’m going to the Virginia sort of, campaign finance website- that I’m just interested in what people are doing politically. But if they also go and look at like DSA minutes and like Officer positions they’ll be like, ‘that’s weird, you were the co-chair of the electoral caucus, and you spent three hours on a Virginia campaign finance website.’”

Karaffa does not seem to be concerned about disciplinary action from the State Department: “I have nothing to lose. It’s impossible to fire federal employees.” When asked if his supervisor at the State Department knows about his activism, Karaffa reveals that “nobody knows” about it.

Some government employees are required to regularly submit disclosure forms to help management identify any potential conflicts of interest that may interfere with job responsibilities. Despite disclosing his political activities and officer positions on his financial disclosure form, Karaffa alleges that:

“… somebody just rubber stamps [the form] and it goes forward… I don’t know if [the ethics officer is] all there. He’s so checked out…”

Well, he might not have anything to “lose” – like his job – but as James O’Keefe points out in his video, the Metro DC branch of DSA caught wind that they might have been infiltrated by Project Veritas, and told anyone who was a government employee within their group to lock down their social media accounts.

Something Stuart Karaffa apparently did.

And the rogue gov't employee protected his twitter… pic.twitter.com/cnpvxln7KC

— Mom Mary (@coff33loveit) September 18, 2018

And he might not be as bulletproof as he thinks.

It sounded like he said he was a "contract employee". Those are not as hard to fire as a W-2 Employee. If true, he may find out very quickly he's not as fireproof as he thinks he is. Most Gov't contracts have language/restrictions in them that he has violated. Buh bye!

— Timothy Schlink (@Tim196th) September 18, 2018

Even if Karaffa survives this day at work, I bet his days of unsupervised freewheeling on the taxpayer’s dime are over. Ever had a boss who knew they couldn’t fire you, but knew they could make every moment of your work day an absolute misery? Welcome to Stuart Karaffa’s new reality, if he isn’t packing up his desk right about now.

And honestly, no one is surprised that this is happening. The Deep State is just that – it runs deep and under the radar until things like this drag it out into the light.

As a former member of Congress I have no doubt—there are thousands just like Karaffa throughout our federal government. https://t.co/cPhZgVHGU6 @Project_Veritas @JamesOKeefeIII #DeepState

— Tim Huelskamp (@CongHuelskamp) September 18, 2018

Prediction: nothing will happen to this guy. Because he’s right, it’s impossible to fire federal employees. https://t.co/fbltVuZXgF

— Inez Stepman (@InezFeltscher) September 18, 2018

I'm sick of hearing "drain the swamp!" Swamps serve valuable ecological purpose. Seeing stuff like this and nothing being done makes me hope @realDonaldTrump will stop saying "drain swamp" and just say "FLUSH THE TOILET!" https://t.co/lt2uXsMXyA

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 18, 2018

If all of Project Veritas’s videos on the Deep State are as damning as this one, it’s only a start. The rot runs much deeper than one stupidly arrogant State Department peon proclaiming his role in the Resistance. O’Keefe could probably spend the rest of his adult life on this series and it still wouldn’t be enough. But for today, it’s something.

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