2014: Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State [The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight]

billmoyers.com ^ | February 21, 2014 | Mike Lofgren

[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.

[indthkr]

Deep State bump for later...

[Swarthy Greek Immigrant]

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. That is about the FISC/FISA court being part of the Deep State - written in 2014 - sounds prescient to me.

[Jane Long]

Ping.

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Welcome to FreeRepublic.

The essay: Anatomy of the Deep State, should be required reading. Thanks for posting.

[maggief]

BFL

[Swarthy Greek Immigrant]

As this article from 2014 and from Bill Moyers.com shows, https://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/ (predates Trump’s presidency and is from a Democrat source not some Alex Jones conspiracy page) the Deep State is exposed as best the author can figure out and one of the branches of the Deep State is the SDNY which seems to operate independently of the Executive branch.
That is why SDNY AG Berman is ignoring his boss firing him - he is pretty much saying the president is not the boss of the Deep State and I work for others.

The SDNY has been trying to soft coup Trump and failing that to sabotage him and hamstrung him. A soft coup is when they attempt to remove the leader is done via internal govt procedures in a power struggle.

Read the article it presages everything done to Trump and predicted which govt branches would do it - including the FISA court.

Next time an outsider (not traditional vetted GOP/Dem) wins (left or right) they need to root canal the SDNY and the branches of govt mentioned in this article because if they will be their Deep State enemy.
PS: I immigrated from a country that had a deep state (may still do) so you Americans may not recognize it like someone from a country that had one would recognize it.