When the Bureaucrats Spy on Senators: The American Leviathan in Action

AmericanLeviathan.com ^ | Oct 08, 2025 | American Leviathan

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Last week’s bombshell claim—that Christopher Wray and Attorney General Garland signed off on the FBI’s surveillance of GOP senators because any probe touching elected officials must be approved as a Sensitive Investigative Matter (SIM)—should shock every defender of constitutional government.

If true, it confirms what many have long feared: that the administrative apparatus of the federal state—the American Leviathan—no longer views itself as subordinate to our elected branches, but as a power unto itself.

It tells us that the Leviathan has fully turned on its masters.

The Founders built this Republic on a simple idea: that the people rule themselves through their elected representatives.

The FBI, the DOJ, and every other agency of the executive branch exist to serve that constitutional framework—not to subvert it.

Yet what we are witnessing today is the inevitable consequence of letting unelected bureaucrats believe they are the government. They now act as if their judgment supersedes that of Congress and the American voter. When the security apparatus decides it can spy on senators—the very people charged with overseeing it—you don’t have a constitutional republic anymore. You have a bureaucracy enforcing its own will.

In American Leviathan, I argue that what began a century ago as an “expert” administrative class has grown into a full-blown, self-perpetuating regime. It is not accountable to the ballot box, it does not answer to elected authority, and it has little regard for constitutional limits.

These bureaucrats see themselves as the true guardians of the state—entitled to act “for the good of the nation,” even when that means violating the law or undermining elected officials.

This mentality is exactly what we see now in the actions of the FBI and DOJ.

They believe they decide. They determine who is acceptable.

They will “protect democracy”—even if it means destroying its core principle: that government derives its just powers...

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

...the administrative apparatus of the federal state—the American Leviathan—no longer views itself as subordinate to our elected branches, but as a power unto itself...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." --Declaration of Independence

[notdownwidems]

where are the indictments?

[ProgressingAmerica]

Where are the legislation/bills which will abolish these unconstitutional agencies altogether?

[Jacquerie]

The 17th Amendment enabled the vast majority of the evils that oppress us.