Posted on 03/13/2017 11:21:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Trump administration, in its fight against the “deep state,” could risk exacerbating the very problems it has pinned on shadowy bureaucratic forces: leaking, internal conflict and the politicization of institutions like intelligence agencies.
American institutions do not resemble the powerful deep states of countries like Egypt or Pakistan, experts say. Nor do individual leaks, a number of which have come from President Trump’s own team, amount to a conspiracy.
The diagnosis of a “deep state,” those experts say, has the problem backward.
Mr. Trump has put institutions under enormous stress. He has attacked them publicly, implied he would reject intelligence findings that cast his election in a poor light, hobbled agencies by failing to fill critical positions and cut off bodies like the National Security Council from shaping policy.
That has forced civil servants into an impossible dilemma: acquiesce, allowing their institution to be sidelined, or mount a defense, for example through leaks that counter Mr. Trump’s accusations or pressure him into restoring normal policy-maker practices.
Those defensive acts have deepened perceptions in the Trump administration of a “deep state” that must be rooted out. This tit-for-tat cycle, scholars say, risks substantially weakening both Mr. Trump and government institutions. In the long term, they warn, this could undermine the government’s ability to function — and to serve the millions of Americans who depend on it.
Though Mr. Trump has not publicly used the phrase, allies and sympathetic news media outlets have repurposed “deep state” from its formal meaning — a network of civilian and military officials who control or undermine democratically elected governments — to a pejorative meant to accuse civil servants of illegitimacy and political animus.
It is akin to Mr. Trump’s appropriation of “fake news,” a term that originally described rumor mills
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RE: The diagnosis of a “deep state,” those experts say, has the problem backward.
The thing I really dislike about columns like this one is they attribute some quote to so called “experts” but never identify who these people are.
Do they even exist? Who knows?
Just heard this article roasted on Rush by Mark S.
Deep State doesn’t exist but if you complain about it you’ll create it.
Weren’t these the same people screaming about Nazi control because of the Patriot Act? And not one complaint for 8 years of drone strikes killing kids or American citizens with no trials from the NYT crowd.
More fact free/fake news from the world’s printed faux news master of fact free/fake news.
One would almost think they are naive, who knows perhaps they are.
The message: You make something that doesn’t exist much worse. Than it is. Or isn’t.
So I guess this could mean, if we were to compliment the “deep state” it would kind of go away?
And there could be something to that idea. After all, the ridicule of Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters has made them massively stupider over time.
Or not. The disinformation bureau strikes again.
Mr. Trump has put institutions under enormous stress. He has attacked them publicly, implied he would reject... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Whichi is why the people voted for President Trump.
They know as a matter of empirical fact that President Trump is right.
This is a propaganda article, with skillfully weaponized text on full display.
The public also realize that this is the New York Slimes, abusers of the 1st amendment of Free Speech via lies.
Pay no mind to the man behind the curtain.
The mental gymnastics it takes to write this crap.
“If Trump keep criticizing the deep state, it will obtain revenge” is how I take the article.
The thing I really dislike about columns like this one is they attribute some quote to so called “experts” but never identify who these people are.
Do they even exist? Who knows?
CIA Wiki release says that the NYT is full of sheisse!
Security officer on Benghazi : “For me the Taliban is inside the building”
The CIA isn’t spying on you...........
Reminds me of the movie Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.
PRAVDA.
You know what REALLY doesn’t exist?
Factual news, at the New Fake Times.
The greatest trick the devil ever did was to convince people he doesn’t exist.
If the “experts” are not named, you may consider it a fake news story.
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