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What is the Deep State?The Deep State is shorthand for the nexus of secretive intelligence agencies whose leaders and policies are not much affected by changes in the White House or the Congress. While definitions vary, the Deep State includes the CIA, NSA, Defense Intelligence Agency and components of the State Department, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and the armed forces.'
- Jefferson Morley,
Trump vs. the Deep State.., February 20, 2017
'As was the case with Americans in the 18th century, even many modern-day Americans understand reflexively that secret searches constitute a violation of basic property rights, which is why national intelligence director James Clapper in 2013 lied under oath — with impunity — to Congress about the existence of the the Deep State's mass surveillance programs.
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Since then, criticism of the Deep State has only accelerated as these agencies have turned to openly attempting to influence the electoral process, whether we're talking about the FBI's on-again-off-again threats of prosecution of Hillary Clinton, or if it's the widespread use of leaks against the Trump Administration since the election. It is precisely the Deep State's ability to collect potentially-damaging information on anyone it considers to be a potential threat that serves as the agencies' political bread and butter. Just as J. Edgar Hoover compiled dossiers on every politician who might curtail his agency's power, Hoover's successors in the modern Deep State are able to do the same.
In response to the growing acknowledgement of Deep State meddling, knee-jerk defenders of the Deep State have sided with shadowy unelected agencies over legitimately elected public officials.
Perhaps most notoriously, Bill Kristol announced on Twitter: "Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state."
That is: untouchable, unknowable bureaucrats are preferable to impeachable, semi-transparent publicly elected officials. For Kristol, the Deep State is also preferable to the US Constitution.
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This isn't to say that Trump is the "good guy" here. As with the US military establishment overall, the Deep State is by no means monolithic. Like any group of self-serving institutions, there are competing factions. Trump clearly has allies within some areas of the Deep State, as can be reflected in Trump's attempts to massively expand military spending at the expense of the taxpayer.
But, as Greenwald pointed out, it's not a coincidence that former and current members of the Deep State clearly preferred Clinton to Trump during the campaign, and that Trump is considered to be — by them — an outsider.
Greenwald, however, prefers the relative transparency of Trump — whom he considers to be dangerous — to the secret and unaccountable agents of the Deep State. Greenwald concludes that it "is important to resist" Trump's policies, but not at the cost of supporting the Deep State.
The same might be said of anyone in favor of private property, peace, and freedom. It is important to oppose Trump's misdeeds — as with any president — but to do so by siding with faceless unelected bureaucrats of the Deep State is a recipe for disaster.'
- Ryan McMaken,
Trump vs. The Deep State, March 7, 2017<
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