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2014: Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State [The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight]
billmoyers.com ^ | February 21, 2014 | Mike Lofgren

Posted on 11/15/2019 10:13:11 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant

The Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street. All these agencies are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council. Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Manhattan, where sensitive proceedings in national security cases are conducted. The final government component (and possibly last in precedence among the formal branches of government established by the Constitution) is a kind of rump Congress consisting of the congressional leadership and some (but not all) of the members of the defense and intelligence committees. The rest of Congress, normally so fractious and partisan, is mostly only intermittently aware of the Deep State and when required usually submits to a few well-chosen words from the State’s emissaries.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014; deepstate
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To: kiryandil

I have been banned 30+ times on Twitter. All for being a pro Trump immigrant. I am kind of (in)famous - if you missed me on Twitter you missed a hell of a ride.

I have a show every Saturday night - I am the one in the mask in the videos because Demcorats try and dox me all the time. (I am George Stephanopulos’ cousin in Queens).

https://www.bitchute.com/channel/leninmccarthy/


21 posted on 11/15/2019 10:53:22 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant
I am kind of (in)famous - if you missed me on Twitter you missed a hell of a ride.

I joined in October 2016 to support Trump and his Kek meme army.

I was probably following one or more of your incarnations at one time or another.

I've only lost one account.  winking face

22 posted on 11/15/2019 11:01:49 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: GOPJ

The New York Times (which is probably a rat for the Deep State) admits that Epstein was talking about having dirt on powerful people. Them the Deep State arrests him on charges they ignored before? What was the urgency? Because he was spilling the beans to the NYTimes.

The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People The article was from Aug 12, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html

Also: Jeffrey Epstein was meeting with Silicon Valley reporters before his arrest, ‘rambling’ about all the people he knew in tech

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-interview-tech-reporters-weeks-before-death-2019-8



23 posted on 11/15/2019 11:05:31 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

The Fed is not part of Treasury, it is an organization of private banks whose board is appointed by the president.

I suppose it could be included under the Wall St. umbrella.


24 posted on 11/15/2019 11:06:32 AM PST by seowulf
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To: kiryandil

Catch me every Saturday night on YouTube on my buddy’s show.

https://twitter.com/LeninSidious/status/1193459573878751234?s=20


25 posted on 11/15/2019 11:07:02 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: seowulf

What the article is saying is that there is no daylight between the Feds and Wall Street (a catchall for the Fed and their Finance clients/agents)


26 posted on 11/15/2019 11:09:20 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

Cool, thanks!


27 posted on 11/15/2019 11:20:49 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant; All
Long article well worth reading. It should be noted this was written 2 years before Trump was elected.

And when done reading this article, check out George Webb. This will give a clearer idea of the magnitude of problems with the DS.

28 posted on 11/15/2019 11:25:29 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant
Also: Jeffrey Epstein was meeting with Silicon Valley reporters before his arrest, ‘rambling’ about all the people he knew in tech

I suspect word got out Epstein was ready to blow... the rest is history.

29 posted on 11/15/2019 11:34:49 AM PST by GOPJ (Term limit the bureaucracy... NOT elected officials.)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant
It is unbelievable how many people have been banned or are threatened with being banned by Twit and Youtube.

You'd think that would wake people up to the fact that something is really wrong.

30 posted on 11/15/2019 11:35:18 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Pajamajan

I read the article before - what jogged my memory was how the Manafort prosecution was in Virginia and the Cohen prosecution at SDNY and all the talk of Mueller failing to get Trump so now it was up to the SDNY in getting Trump per
the media. So that tracked with this pre-Trump article on the Deep State.

Also the Ukrainians seem to have been arrested by the SDNY just as the Democrats were initiating the sham impeachment coup gambit and of course Epstein died in custody of the SDNY.

Also, the Trump appointed head of SDNY was forced to recuse from the Cohen prosecution and he cucked and did so - that tells me he had no power there.


31 posted on 11/15/2019 11:38:31 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: Pajamajan

You all missed a hell of a banning when it came to me. I had thousands of followers.


32 posted on 11/15/2019 11:39:38 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: Pajamajan

PS: Listen to the half hour interview on this article by the author: Mike Lofgren on the Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight - embedded in the article.


33 posted on 11/15/2019 11:41:02 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: Pajamajan

The ruling elite think they rule the rabble by controlling the “official narrative” and any counter narrative that the rabble put up on social media threatens them.

We all think it is funny/odd that CNN and Democrats seem to freak out so much on harmless funny memes but if you view this through the prism of how the Elites view “the Narrative” then funny memes of CNN being wrestled by Trump is a threat of existential proportions.

They can not allow any sort of counter narrative at all that contradicts the official narrative.

In my case a registered independent voter who is an immigrant who voted for Trump goes against the narrative and that means I need to be banned from social media and doxed as punishment.


34 posted on 11/15/2019 11:46:58 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: GOPJ

The oldest detective rule number one in solving a murder is the Roman Cui bono “to whom is it a benefit?”

When I read that pedo Epstein was talking about spilling the beans - suddenly a cui bono principle takes shape. It explains why he was arrested out of the blue like that and why he was done in.

I think it happened because the Democrats were trying to smear a Trump cabinet appointee for going easy on Trump (who testified in confirmation hearings the Intel community told him to do so) this made Epstein uneasy and he started to talk to the press and hinting he had info to spill - that was when he was arrested.

Because Epstein was arrested by the SDNY that proves to me that Trump was not behind this (the Dems tried to smear Trump as being linked to Epstein to hide his links to the Clintons) even though as president in theory he is in charge of the SDNY via the DOJ.


35 posted on 11/15/2019 11:54:22 AM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: seowulf

As one swamp creature put it, “They’ve got six ways from Sunday to get you.”***

That was Schumer, and there is a link to that in the post just above yours.


36 posted on 11/15/2019 12:39:12 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

+1


37 posted on 11/15/2019 12:48:23 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Swarthy Greek Immigrant

From Billmoyers.com?


38 posted on 11/15/2019 1:23:32 PM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: gogeo

Yes - from 20114 before Trump ran for president - the essayist is a Republican.

This is important because they claim Trump invented the claim there is a Deep State and it is a Republican conspiracy theory. Just point to this 2014 essay on Bill Moyer’s website and have the Democrat choke on it.


39 posted on 11/15/2019 1:38:00 PM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: Pajamajan

Whoever re-did the title of my post (I just copied the essay title as is) did a good job of adding info to the title.


40 posted on 11/15/2019 1:42:23 PM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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