The Deep State or “shadow government” typically refers to the purported existence of groups within the government that exert enormous power on key decision-makers while keeping their actions hidden from public view. Since these groups, by definition, hide their actions and cover their tracks, it is very difficult for us to know much about them.
Glenn Greenwald is no fan of Donald Trump. Yet his current criticism is leveled not at Trump, but on the intelligence community and the Democrats who are desperate to find something to accuse Trump of that sticks. Greenwald believes that the Deep State, exemplified by the intelligence community including the CIA, working with the major media and Democratic operatives, have broadcast unfounded rumors in at attempt to take down Trump. In other words, in their desperation and zeal to find something to hang on Trump, they are destroying their own credibility according to Greenwald.
Referring to the military-industrial complex in concert with the intelligence community, Greenwald notes that,
This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare against the duly elected and already widely disliked president-elect, Donald Trump. They are using classic Cold War dirty tactics and the defining ingredients of what has until recently been denounced as “Fake News.”
Their most valuable instrument is the U.S. media, much of which reflexively reveres, serves, believes, and sides with hidden intelligence officials. And Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss, as well as a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing — eager — to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry, and damaging those behaviors might be.
This combination of military contractors and the CIA would be what Mr. Greenwald refers to as the Deep State that opposes Mr. Trump.
Again, keep in mind that Greenwald has no use for Donald Trump as you carefully read the following excerpt, noting his revulsion at the idea of the idea of the intelligence community acting on its own to attempt to topple the government. On this point, it is difficult to disagree with Greenwald.
But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.
Greenwald continues his assault on those within the Democratic party who would encourage the Deep State to subvert the presidency of Donald Trump.
Whatever one’s views are on those debates, it is the democratic framework — the presidential election, the confirmation process, congressional leaders, judicial proceedings, citizen activism and protest, civil disobedience — that should determine how they are resolved. All of those policy disputes were debated out in the open; the public heard them; and Trump won. Nobody should crave the rule of Deep State overlords.
Yet craving Deep State rule is exactly what prominent Democratic operatives and media figures are doing. Any doubt about that is now dispelled. Just last week, Chuck Schumer issued a warning to Trump, telling Rachel Maddow that Trump was being “really dumb” by challenging the unelected intelligence community because of all the ways they possess to destroy those who dare to stand up to them.
Donald Trump is a bright man who is well-versed and very experienced in the use of power. As such, he’s not an easy person to push around. While the Deep State might have its own agenda and is clearly a force to be reckoned with.
Trump seems to fear absolutely nothing, except at he recently noted, ‘germs’. Things as large as swamp creatures carrying the full force of cloaked, far-reaching entrenched power, however, seem to only ignite the man.
Trump knows that the way you win a battle against such an enemy is to first uncloak it. Now Trump is turning up the stones, as recently witnessed by tweets he sent out on Sunday.
The president-elect last week blasted intelligence agencies after it was reported that Trump had been briefed on an unverified dossier alleging Russia had compromising information on him.
Brennan said Sunday that the president-elect needs to be disciplined about what he says publicly and criticized Trump for likening the actions of the intelligence community to those of Nazis.
.@FoxNews "Outgoing CIA Chief, John Brennan, blasts Pres-Elect Trump on Russia threat. Does not fully understand." Oh really, couldn't do…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 16, 2017
much worse – just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the build-up of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 16, 2017
Source: The Intercept, The Hill
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A lot of this is coming from the illegals and then the dumb lamb head liberals and Democrat and a stupid Hollywood has to follow in with them because I don’t have brains on their own that’s why they allowed Obama for 8 years to control every decision they made it is sickening I know there’s no other country that is this turned upside down because I have allowed a Muslim 24 just birth certificate get into the White House and let him do as he pleased and get away with it they would have thrown him out on his head matter fact they would investigate it and found out he was an illegal so was that got to say for the ones in charge in America very little
God be with all of us. They declared war on us a long time ago and will stop at nothing to squelch descent from the population
Mr.President Donald Trump wants to start off on clean slate. In with the clean and out goes the Dirt.. No Scandals with President Trump’s Administration and other agencies. Caught your Fired!
These people know that their corruption will be exposed and they are on the attack. Foolishness at a level only matched by Clinton.
Hillary is a part of a political globalest special interest organization that has chosen the most evil religion Islam to bring in a new world order and to take away the second amendment, freedom of speech and Christianity. Hillary and Obama are letting Isis win to bring in a new world order, under Hillary Isis wins. Putin is right we are arming Isis to bring in a new world order .
Revelation 13,
Trump will build our military defenses Obama has neglected this. Hillary is a guaranteed failure. Isis is calling for knife attacks on beaches and camp sites and bus stops, Hillary will not care she will bring violence on America just like she did to the Ambassador, she will sacrifice anyone for the new world order.Hillary wants to bring in 5 million. America has never been more unsafe we need to vote for Trump. When I was younger I had a great vision of the Lord Jesus Christ blood going through my skin into my wrist. Jesus was wearing a heavenly blue garment and holding my hand and then I saw a sprinkle of the Lord Jesus Christ blood going through my skin into my wrist. Hebrews 12:22-28,Heavenly Jerusalem, Acts 2:17-21.Matthew 24,Heaven and earth shall pass away but by no means shall my word pass away. In revelations God says to come out of the whore that you receive not of her plagues and in her was found all the deaths of the Christians. This is saying to vote for Trump!Hillary is setting us up just like the 9-11 victims were set up.Voting for Trump is voting against evil.Trump will be bringing back the jobs that are disappearing and bring full time jobs.Wikkileaks prove that Hillary was a part of a arms deal to sell Isis weapons that she was paid off to do just like the 5 million that she plans to bring into America to disable Americans to bring in a new world order.Bringing jobs back and creating them go hand in hand with welfare and college degrees and only Trump has talk about this it is a easy decision he is best to save America.Go on you tube and listen to Wikileaks:Hillary Lied Under Oath About Arming Isis,subscriber Lionel Nation a attorney at Law and he says the media does not care about reporting about how dangerous Hillary and Obama are.This is a sign of the rapture or blessed hope that Jesus Christ Prophesied.Epistle of John.It is odd that in other airplane crashes there is always evidence left but 9-11 there wasn’t any and many scientist are saying because there wasn’t any and out of 86 videos only 1 video shows airplanes and a chemical that is only found in bombs was found in the Twin Towers and 3 weeks before it happened when it was close they where doing work in there when it closed and witness described what they where bringing in and it sounds like they may be right these scientist who investigated 9-11 properly.This is the reason the black boxes where never found which would of withstand the fire and crash.Some 911 researchers are saying that the radar showed military aircrafts behind all the airline planes and there is a way to leave that path and not be detected because of the same path and only a military drone plane would be able to have the speed a big airliner would not at the low atmosphere level and would not be able to hit the target and also weak parts of the plane like the wings or tail would fall off it wouldn’t just disappear into the building perfectly unless it was a military drone which some witnesses say it looked like “That does not look like a commercial airliner “.Also a fox reporter and others are on video saying this does not look like a commercial airliner they thought it look like a military airplane these people witness the second airplane and this only makes sense with the science and thermite was found which melts steel which was flowing like lava and the perfect way all three buildings fell in 7 seconds prove that all where wired up with thermite according to the experts.The 3rd World Trade Center tower had nothing hit it and the steel frame melt when that is not possible unless it was wired up with thermite and it was a demolition which means all of them where.It collapsed 7 hours after the first two in a matter of seconds the experts are saying this is clearly evidence all three where wired up with thermite.According to the experts it would only take 7 minutes to make a 3 D Hexagram airplane added to the video of the towers, this is how far technology has gone.Some believe there was a emergency landing of flight 175 and 93 and they put all of the passengers together on the flight that went down because of a missile.Airport records show that flight 11 and 77 where never scheduled to leave that day and never left the gates.James Woods the famous actor was a witness on the O’Reilly show that flight 11 never left he went into the cockpit and told the pilot that your terrorist are here and it never left.With all of James Woods fame and money even he doesn’t have freedom of speech on the show he had to say this happen in August but he didn’t report it until 9-11 the truth is he doesn’t have the freedom of speech to say it happen on 9-11 or they would never give him media attention but I am smart enough to know this is like a victim crying out to be heard but at the same time to protect themselves they cannot and will not be allowed to expose the truth 100%because the cover-up continues. I got his message clearly without knowing the whole story.9-11researchers through the freedom of information act where able to get radar information showing flight 175 and 93 went into Cleveland, Ohio a military base and they evacuated it for two days and some say there is a cremation system there and some believe this is where the calls came from one passenger saying at the end of the call that it is a frame.
Waterboard him till he tells the truth
We need to start over with every aspect of gov… they all are to big and need to understand they work for us
They were all in cahoots together Drain the swamp
Punctuation. I had a heck of a time figuring out the end of a sentence.
Sorry to be a critic, but it can really drive a point or make no sense.