Senator Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, ignited a media firestorm with her appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she confidently declared that the notorious “Deep State” is a myth. Her attempt to humanize the intelligence community—describing CIA personnel as “just good, corn-fed people in mom jeans and white sneakers”—has been met with immediate, blistering skepticism from critics who argue the entire segment was a masterclass in political theater designed to mask institutional power.
The setting of the interview—Colbert’s couch, widely regarded as a “safe place” for Democrats to navigate political controversies—was itself highlighted as proof of the very coordination Slotkin denies. Critics argue that a sitting Senator and former intelligence official using a highly partisan late-night platform to insist on the innocence of the intelligence agencies is exactly the kind of coordinated message control that fuels “Deep State” narratives.
Slotkin’s assertion that “There’s no network of people running the world” clashes severely with her own controversial history. She was deeply embedded in the intelligence apparatus during the “peak surveillance-state expansion” and was reportedly involved in promoting the now-discredited Trump-Russia hoax.
Furthermore, her recent inclusion in a coordinated Democratic “Sedition Video” urging military officials to challenge the Commander-in-Chief directly undermines her claims of bureaucratic innocence.
Commentators on the right argue that the Senator’s current actions “prove the Deep State does exist” even while she denies it. They view her defense of the CIA as a blatant deflection from her own record. The irony, they claim, is unmistakable: a figure with a history of leveraging intelligence against political opponents is now crying foul, calling Trump’s criticism “nasty.” The segment, intended to be a reassuring message, is instead being consumed as evidence of a powerful, coordinated effort by former intelligence officials to maintain their political influence behind the scenes.
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