Deep state in the United States

Writers, journalists, political scientists and political activists in the United States have for decades expressed concerns about the existence of a deep state or state within a state, which they suspect secretly controls public policy, regardless of which party controls the country's democratic institutions.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

According to Philip Giraldi, the nexus of power is centered on the military-industrial complex, intelligence community and Wall Street.,[11] while Bill Moyers points to plutocrats and oligarchs.[12] Professor Peter Dale Scott also mentions "big oil" as a key player,[13] while David Talbot focuses on national security officials, especially Allen Dulles.[14]

Political scientist Michael J. Glennon believes that this trend is the result of policy being made by government bureaucracies instead of by elected officials.

"I was curious why a president such as Barack Obama would embrace the very same national security and counterterrorism policies that he campaigned eloquently against. Why would that president continue those same policies in case after case after case?"[6]

References

  1. ↑ Priest, Dana; Arkin, William M. (2011). Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0316182214. Lay summary – The Quiet Coup: No, Not Egypt. Here. (July 9, 2013).
  2. ↑ Ambinder, Marc; Grady, D.B. (2013). Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Wiley. ISBN 978-1118146682.
  3. ↑ Scott, Peter Dale (March 10, 2014). "The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld". The Asia-Pacific Journal 12 (10, No. 5).
  4. ↑ Michael J. Glennon (2014). "National Security and Double Government" (PDF). Harvard National Security Journal 5.
  5. ↑ Lofgren, Mike (2016). The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government. Viking. ISBN 0525428348. Lay summary – Controlled by shadow government: Mike Lofgren reveals how top U.S. officials are at the mercy of the “deep state” (January 6, 2016).
  6. 1 2 Jordan Michael Smith (October 19, 2014). "Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.". The Boston Globe.
  7. ↑ Anand Giridharadas (September 15, 2015). "Examining Who Runs the United States". New York Times.
  8. ↑ Bob Burnett (March 7, 2014). "The War on Democracy: The Deep State". Huffington Post.
  9. ↑ Geoff Dyer (December 10, 2014). "CIA report is a strike back against America’s deep state". The Financial Times.
  10. ↑ Peggy Noonan (October 28, 2013). "The Deep State". The Wall Street Journal.
  11. ↑ Philip Giraldi (July 30, 2015). "Deep State America". The American Conservative.
  12. ↑ Bill Moyers (December 23, 2015). "The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don't Let Them!". The Huffington Post.
  13. ↑ Mickey Huff and Peter Phillip (December 2, 2014). "THE AMERICAN DEEP STATE: An Interview with Peter Dale Scott". Project Censored.
  14. ↑ Liam O'Donoghue (October 15, 2015). ""Every president has been manipulated by national security officials": David Talbot exposes America’s "deep state"". Salon.

See also

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