Until recently, \u201cthe Deep State,\u201d the subject of this special report from The New American<\/em>, would not have been a common topic for discussion among either the talking heads on network television or everyday Americans around family dinner tables or office water coolers. But all that changed with the 2016 presidential race and the election of Donald Trump to the White House. And a subject that many Americans were once only dimly aware of, if they were aware of it at all, has become a popular topic.<\/p>\n But what is the Deep State? Does it even exist? How does it operate? What are its goals? Is it something to be feared? What can be done about it? The articles that follow shed much-needed light on these important questions.<\/p>\n In a nutshell, the Deep State is a state within a state \u2014 a shadow government that manipulates and shapes the policies of the visible government, without regard to the best interests of the country, the U.S. Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress, and the public policies of the president, who heads the executive branch. The evidence assembled in this special report shows that the Deep State does exist within the shadows of power and that it is working to submerge the United States in an emerging new world order (global governance), in contravention of President Trump\u2019s stated policy of \u201cAmerica First.\u201d The leaks from the intelligence community, which are intended to delegitimize and even topple the duly elected president, are just part of the evidence exposing the existence, machinations, and clout of the Deep State.<\/p>\n The first article<\/a> in this special report is a brief introduction to the existence of powers behind the throne, not just in America today but in world history. This is followed by articles exposing the shadowy swamp creatures inhabiting the underbelly of the entrenched unelected bureaucracy<\/a> within the U.S. government in general, and within the so-called intelligence community<\/a> in particular.<\/p>\n But there is more to it than that \u2014 there is also the \u201cDeep State Behind the Deep State.\u201d As explained in our article bearing that title<\/a>, the power elites manipulating the levers of political power are outside as well as inside government. One example is the establishment powerhouse known as the Council on Foreign Relations, a globalist-minded private entity.<\/p>\n The articles referenced above and two others, constituting almost all of this special report, were written by Alex Newman, this magazine\u2019s foreign correspondent and a knowledgeable researcher of Deep State machinations. Completing the report is a short piece by Arthur R. Thompson, the chief executive officer of The John Birch Society, who explains that the Deep State\u2019s powerful grip on our government (and on other aspects of American life) can be broken through the organized efforts of everyday citizens<\/a> \u2014 simply by shining the light of day on it. In fact, not only can this be done, but it must be done, since the survival and restoration of our great country depends on it.<\/p>\n We encourage all readers to read this report, to place it in the hands of others, and (in general) to become involved.<\/p>\n To order the \u201cDeep State\u201d special report, click here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Photo at top: P_Wei\/iStock \/Getty Images Plus<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Written by Alex Newman<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n Even a mere few years ago, many Americans would have scoffed at the idea of privately organized individuals controlling the levers of government. Now most people see it.<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1770, William Pitt famously told the U.K. House of Lords that \u201cthere is something behind the throne greater than the king himself.\u201d Today, in the face of what appears to be a broad and highly coordinated effort to destroy President Donald Trump, Americans are waking up in huge numbers to the fact that there is a hidden \u201cpower behind the throne\u201d in America, too. Trump himself has helped to bring about this awakening. For instance, among other concerns, candidate and later President Trump warned his followers about the \u201cswamp,\u201d about a \u201ccabal\u201d seeking \u201cglobal government,\u201d and of course, about the \u201cDeep State\u201d seeking to sabotage the United States and especially his America First agenda. This view is now becoming mainstream, the evidence suggests.<\/p>\n In fact, an ABC News\/Washington Post<\/em> poll from April of 2017 shows that about half of Americans now believe there is indeed a \u201cDeep State\u201d operating from the shadows to manipulate government policy. A third of respondents say that\u2019s just a theory, while one in six do not know. And remember, the establishment media\u2019s polls are typically skewed in the direction favored by the establishment, as the polls predicting a landslide victory for Hillary Clinton revealed most recently. That means it is likely that significantly more than half of Americans agree that there is a \u201cDeep State.\u201d Younger people and independents are even more likely to believe in the Deep State.<\/p>\n In the ABC\/WaPo<\/em> poll, the \u201cDeep State\u201d was defined as \u201cmilitary, intelligence and government officials who try to secretly manipulate government policy.\u201d However, while at least half of Americans now recognize the existence of this Deep State, and more than a few establishment media organs have even acknowledged its existence, a deep understanding of the phenomenon is hardly widespread. That is a problem, and it must be remedied lest Americans become vulnerable to false (and noxious) conspiracy theories purporting to implicate \u201cthe Jews,\u201d the Catholic Church, \u201cwhite males,\u201d or other groups unfairly targeted. The true nature of the Deep State must be exposed if it is to be stopped.<\/p>\n In this special report<\/a> exposing different elements of the \u201cDeep State,\u201d The New American<\/em>magazine plans to shine a light into the darkness of ignorance by connecting the dots. This series will expose the \u201cintelligence community\u201d and the bureaucratic machine, both of which now operate outside of constitutional strictures and seem determined to bring down Trump. But more importantly, the facts themselves will expose the existence of a \u201cDeep State Behind the Deep State\u201d \u2014 the secret societies, the semi-secret organizations that are so influential in policy, and the \u201cmoneymen\u201d who help make it all possible.<\/p>\n For certain die-hard skeptics, even the idea of a \u201cDeep State\u201d secretly dictating policy and orchestrating events from behind a curtain of secrecy sounds implausible. But the fact that it exists, and has for generations, is easy to prove. More than a few members and supporters of this Deep State have acknowledged it.<\/p>\n In the modern era, these Deep State conspirators have become so bold that they literally brag about conspiring with a secret cabal against the interests of their own nations to form a one-world system. \u201cSome even believe we are part of a secret cabal<\/em> working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as \u2018internationalists\u2019 and of conspiring<\/em> with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure \u2014 one world<\/em> if you will,\u201d wrote David Rockefeller, the ultimate Deep State insider, in his own autobiography. (Emphasis added.) \u201cIf that\u2019s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n That there are conspirators, and even a hidden \u201cpower behind the throne\u201d that exercises influence from the shadows, should not be a surprise, either. In fact, conspiracies and shadowy ruling classes have been a crucial part of history. Who could forget historical conspiracies such as the Roman conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar? Even America\u2019s first president, George Washington, having read the book Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies<\/em>, recognized the threat posed to his young nation and its liberties by the Illuminati, a historical secret society founded in Bavaria in 1776 that aimed to overthrow all the governments and religions of Europe. The barbarous French Revolution was its handiwork.<\/p>\n In the Bible, Christians and Jews have documentation of myriad conspiracies. In 2 Samuel 15:12, for example, the scriptures record a conspiracy by Absalom to overthrow King David. In Acts 23:12-13, a conspiracy to kill the Apostle Paul is recounted. And in Psalm 2:2, the Bible even says that the kings of the Earth are conspiring against the Lord and His anointed. In Ephesians 6:12, Paul\u2019s Epistle warns the faithful of the spiritual struggle \u201cagainst principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.\u201d Clearly, while He urges His people not to fear them, the God of the Bible recognizes that conspiracies can and do exist.<\/p>\n Whatever one may think about Trump and his policies, there is a great deal of evidence suggesting that the 45th president is under attack by the Deep State as well. Longtime establishment loyalist Newt Gingrich hinted at it on Fox News before the election. Commenting on why Trump had the establishment in a panic, Gingrich said he is \u201can outsider; he\u2019s not part of the club; he\u2019s uncontrollable; he hasn\u2019t been through the initiation rites; he didn\u2019t belong to the secret society.\u201d<\/p>\n That there is a Deep State behind the scenes has become clear. Now, it must be fully exposed and stopped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Written by Alex Newman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Unelected federal bureaucrats make reams of rules and regulations for Americans, despite the fact that such lawmaking is unconstitutional, and for the most part the bureaucrats are following a detrimental path.<\/strong><\/p>\n Burrowed deep within the bowels of the U.S. government are legions of Big Government bureaucrats with views that are radically at odds with those of everyday, mainstream Americans \u2014 and the implications for freedom are enormous. Elections may be useful in removing politicians, but the career bureaucrats who toil away in obscurity, often in blatant defiance of the Constitution, never go anywhere. Instead, they protect their turf as they dump an unfathomable number of regulations and decrees on the very taxpaying Americans who pay their salaries \u2014 tens of thousands of pages worth every year. And when there is a perceived threat to their power and agenda \u2014 say, for example, a president who promises to \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d and rein in the bureaucracy \u2014 they react with fury. Meet the infamous \u201cDeep State,\u201d or at least one crucial component of it.<\/p>\n On paper, at least, President Donald Trump is the chief executive officer of the federal government. He sits atop a vast and incredibly powerful machine that includes nearly three million civilian federal employees, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management. That does not include the more than two million in the armed services or the over 20 million government employees at the state and local level, many of whom see their role, primarily, as implementing federal decrees. The millions of bureaucrats employed directly by the feds are spread out across hundreds \u2014 nobody has the exact number, apparently \u2014 of bureaucracies, agencies, departments, sub-agencies, and more. Official estimates on the number of agencies range as high as 430, or even higher. And regardless of which agency they work at, among those federal employees who gave to a political campaign in the last presidential election, almost all of them gave to Hillary Clinton. That is a fact.<\/p>\n In a memo produced by Rich Higgins while he was serving as U.S. national security council director for strategic planning in the Trump administration, the \u201cDeep State\u201d is referred to multiple times. Under \u201cThe Deep State,\u201d the document outlines the general idea: \u201cThe successful outcome of cultural Marxism is a bureaucratic state beholden to no one<\/em>, certainly not the American people. [Emphasis added.] With no rule of law considerations outside those that further deep state power, the deep state truly becomes, as Hegel advocated, god bestriding the earth.\u201d Throughout the memo, there are more than half a dozen references to this \u201cDeep State,\u201d including the idea that Democratic leadership \u201cprotects cultural Marxist programs of action and facilitates the relentless expansion of the deep state.\u201d Even the Republican leadership, in cooperation with \u201cglobalists, corporatists, and the international financial interests,\u201d is willing to \u201cservice the deep state,\u201d Higgins explained.<\/p>\n The explosive document Higgins wrote, which outlines the coalition of interests that he said are working to destroy President Trump and America itself, highlights a seemingly bizarre alliance bringing together the hard Left, Islamist organizations, globalists, mega-corporations, the bureaucracy, and more. \u201cRecognizing in candidate Trump an existential threat to cultural Marxist memes that dominate the prevailing cultural narrative, those that benefit recognize the threat he poses and seek his destruction,\u201d Higgins observed, describing an incredibly fierce Maoist-style insurgency being waged against the current administration. \u201cFor this cabal, Trump must be destroyed. Far from politics as usual, this is a political warfare effort that seeks the destruction of a sitting president. Since Trump took office, the situation has intensified to crisis level proportions. For those engaged in the effort, especially those from within the \u2018deep state\u2019 or permanent government apparatus, this raises clear Title 18 (legal) concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n Ironically, after the memo was brought to the attention of Deep State bigwigs in the federal Leviathan, Higgins was reportedly removed from his post by the Deep State<\/a>. Former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka referred to it as the \u201cpermanent state.\u201d No matter the term used to describe this unaccountable, unelected, and highly destructive machine operating out of Washington, D.C., at this point it is impossible to deny that there is a sort of permanent governing class that, at least in part, is composed of unaccountable federal officials burrowed into the bowels of the bureaucracy. When the establishment press acknowledges the existence of the \u201cDeep State,\u201d this is what they are referring to \u2014 even if many Big Government supporters with little regard for constitutional limits on government view the apparatus as largely benign.<\/p>\n However, for patriots, the existence of this bureaucratic Deep State should be cause for serious alarm, for at least several key reasons. For one, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that this permanent government, much of it self-evidently unconstitutional, is hostile to the essential values that long underpinned the United States \u2014 limited government, rule of law, inalienable rights endowed on individuals by God, traditional morality, and more. Of course, the first and most obvious piece of evidence can be found by simply examining the actions of this permanent governing class. The obvious fruits of the bureaucracy\u2019s labors include constantly diminishing individual freedom, perpetually expanding government power, surging government spending and a national debt now reaching $20 trillion (and as much as $100 trillion to $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities), increased militarization of the bureaucracies, destroyed lives, reduced prosperity, and other ills.<\/p>\n Bureaucratic Deep State Is Totally in the Tank for Clinton<\/strong><\/p>\n The politicization of this Deep State is now impossible to deny. Consider, for instance, the fact that some 95 percent of the money donated by federal employees who gave in the 2016 presidential election went to Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign. The massive imbalance held true across every agency analyzed by The Hill<\/em> as part of an eye-opening investigation<\/a> published in the days before the election. Among employees at the U.S. State Department, for example, more than 99 percent of all donations went to Clinton. That incredible ratio helps explain seemingly bizarre occurrences such as, for instance, the recently exposed plot by top State Department officials to install Joseph Macmanus, Clinton\u2019s top aide amid the Benghazi fiasco<\/a>, as U.S. ambassador to Colombia \u2014 and all that amid a Deep State-backed scheme to empower communist forces in that nation that was facilitated by Obama and Castro. It also helps explain why foreign policies started under previous administrations \u2014 using U.S. tax money to promote homosexuality abroad, as one example \u2014 continue to emerge from the State Department despite the ostensible change in the political leadership.<\/p>\n Some bureaucracies were even worse than the State Department. At the U.S. Department of Education, which has usurped virtually all authority over what gets taught in government schools across America today, 99.7 percent of donations went to Clinton. Virtually every bureaucrat in this department who donated supported Clinton. Three donated $220 to Trump, while 724 workers gave more $74,000 to Clinton. And remember, Clinton famously supported the politically toxic Common Core standards to nationalize and globalize education. And she infamously claimed that it takes a (government) \u201cvillage\u201d to raise a child. That is why, despite the ostensible change in leadership, very little has actually changed in terms of policy at the department. In fact, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos\u2019 false claims notwithstanding<\/a>, the department continues its scheming to force government schools across America to teach the Obama-backed, dumbed-down Common Core standards \u2014 a radical program that Trump promised to crush, that is overwhelmingly rejected by Americans in polls, and that serves to further nationalize and destroy education.<\/p>\n Other federal departments \u2014 including many that can literally destroy the lives of Americans on a whim \u2014 are almost as radically skewed in favor of Clinton and her anti-constitutional, Big Government agenda. Consider the Department of Justice as a representative example. According to The Hill\u2019s analysis of election spending data, 97 percent of DOJ employees\u2019 donations to a presidential campaign went to Clinton. Remember, those are the same bureaucrats who were in charge of investigating Clinton for a variety of serious crimes, including her use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state. Still today, despite having Attorney General Jeff Sessions ostensibly in charge, the DOJ remains dominated by a permanent class of bureaucrats and attorneys who loathe their bosses and especially the average Trump voters responsible for defeating their favored candidate.<\/p>\n At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite the fact that American farmers are overwhelmingly conservative, 99.4 percent of donations went to Clinton. The numbers were the same at the U.S. Department of Labor, with just 0.6 percent of donations going to Trump. At the U.S. Commerce Department, more than 98 percent of the cash went to Clinton. At the Department of Energy, it was 95 percent. Among Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucrats, 96 percent of their donations were for Clinton. At the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 96 percent of donations went to Clinton, too. At the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which has been under fire for years for targeting conservatives, almost 95 percent of donations were for Hillary. At the Treasury Department, 95 percent went to Clinton. At the EPA, where former bureaucrats got caught circulating a guide teaching current bureaucrats how to resist the Trump policies voters supported, it was 96 percent.<\/p>\n In other words, the federal bureaucrats in charge of foreign policy, \u201cjustice,\u201d education, agriculture, health, tax audits, housing, commerce, and more are virtually all opponents of their boss \u2014 the man elected by the American people to rein in those very bureaucracies and bureaucrats. Those bureaucrats, who make up a key component of the \u201cDeep State,\u201d are still giving overwhelmingly to Democrats ahead of the 2018 congressional elections, according to an analysis<\/a> by the online Washington Free Beacon<\/em> released in mid-October. Those trends are not likely to change anytime soon, with many of those bureaucrats having \u201cjob security\u201d unimaginable in the private sector, which includes a practical ban on being fired, even when criminal activity is involved. Consider the implications of this hard-left Deep State, and the unfathomable power it wields over the lives of Americans. It is not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n Some analysts have tried to explain away the incredibly lopsided donation numbers by citing self-preservation. In essence, the argument goes like this: Trump said he would consider cutting back some of the sprawling federal bureaucracy, so bureaucrats were anxious about potentially losing their jobs or their power or both. On the surface, that sounds like a plausible theory. However, even among the agencies ostensibly dealing with \u201cdefense\u201d and \u201csecurity,\u201d where Trump vowed to allocate even more resources, Trump still<\/em> did poorly in terms of donations relative to Clinton. At the Defense Department, for example, some 84 percent of donations went to Clinton. At Homeland Security, 90 percent of the donations went to Hillary. And at Veterans Affairs, Clinton received almost 90 percent. Could it be a mere coincidence? Almost certainly not.<\/p>\n Draining the Bureaucratic Deep State Swamp?<\/strong><\/p>\n Unfortunately, despite the rhetoric, President Donald Trump has been unable or unwilling to drain the Deep State bureaucracy swamp. Indeed, beyond the bureaucracy, many of Obama\u2019s political appointees remain in their posts. At the State Department, for example, out of six undersecretary of state positions, only one has been filled so far. That single post was actually filled by an Obama-era official, Thomas Shannon, who has been working overtime to have Deep State operatives put into key posts that will advance Obama\u2019s agenda while ensuring that the \u201cdirty laundry\u201d never gets aired<\/a>. Of the 23 assistant secretary of state positions, just three are filled so far, and two of those have been filled by officials from the Obama administration. A State Department official quoted in media reports said the agency had a \u201cdeep bench\u201d of career (Deep State) bureaucrats working to \u201cadvance U.S. interests.\u201d Neocons such as John Bolton, former UN ambassador, too, have warned that the State Department is still pursuing Obama\u2019s policies despite the election, such as promoting the LGBT agenda at U.S. missions around the world.<\/p>\n When asked about the huge number of appointments that have not been made, Trump suggested he might not make them. \u201cWe are not looking to fill all of those positions,\u201d Trump explained on Twitter. \u201cDon\u2019t need many of them \u2014 reduce size of government.\u201d In an interview earlier this year with Forbes<\/em>, Trump echoed those comments, saying he would not be making many of the appointments that would normally be made, because \u201cyou don\u2019t need them.\u201d \u201cI mean, you look at some of these agencies, how massive they are, and it\u2019s totally unnecessary,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have hundreds of thousands of people.\u201d Trump is right, of course. In reality, it is even worse \u2014 many of those jobs and the agencies the appointees would lead are not just unnecessary, but completely unconstitutional. But by not filling those key posts while leaving the bureaucracy under them intact, Trump is allowing Obama holdovers and swarms of Deep State bureaucrats across the federal government to run wild and undermine the agenda he promised voters. He may very well be getting bad advice from \u201cDeep State\u201d operatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, some of the Deep State\u2019s leading luminaries \u2014 such as fanatical \u201cNew World Order\u201d advocate and population-control zealot Henry Kissinger, who has served as secretary of state and in other top posts \u2014 have even been embraced by Trump in recent months. On October 10, Kissinger visited the Oval Office and was showered with praise by the president. \u201cHenry Kissinger has been a friend of mine. I\u2019ve liked him, I\u2019ve respected him,\u201d Trump said<\/a> of a man who practically embodies the Deep State swamp. \u201cHe\u2019s a man I have great, great respect for.\u201d Beyond that, as highlighted by The New American,<\/em> Trump has troubling connections to the globalist establishment and the Council on Foreign Relations \u2014 another key component of the \u201cDeep State\u201d<\/a> \u2014 even among some of his Cabinet appointments. Some of his top officials have even attended<\/a> the annual Bilderberg meeting, another gathering of Deep State operatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Joe Biden have realized how important it is for bureaucratic Deep State operatives to remain in place as they try to sabotage any semblance of the \u201cAmerica First\u201d policies promised to voters by Trump. Biden, for example, said the bureaucrats \u201ccall me all the time.\u201d The former VP said he responds by telling them: \u201cPlease stay, please stay. There has to be some competence and normalcy.\u201d Clinton made similar remarks in September, urging federal employees to \u201cstick it out, stick it out, because the tide has to turn.\u201d \u201cIf [Democrats] can take back one or both houses of Congress in 2018, you will have people you can talk to again,\u201d Clinton declared while promoting her book, implying that they could not talk to their own boss elected by Americans. At least 78 of Obama\u2019s political appointees have also \u201cburrowed\u201d into top-level civil service jobs<\/a> where they essentially cannot be removed, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.<\/p>\n Bureaucratic Deep State Has Tools to Bring Down Enemies <\/strong><\/p>\n Adding another twist to the saga is that the swarms of \u201cDeep State\u201d bureaucrats and bureaucracies have many ways to take down their enemies. Consider, for example, that these out-of-control, pro-Clinton agencies produce more decrees and regulations with criminal penalties attached than the government itself can count<\/a> \u2014 literally. Estimates suggest there are close to half a million federal regulations with criminal penalties. But nobody knows the true number. When lawmakers asked the Congressional Research Service to calculate the number of statutes and regulations with criminal penalties, its response was that it lacked the \u201cmanpower and resources to accomplish this task.\u201d Seriously. Despite the Constitution delegating all legislative powers to Congress, the reality is that most legislative powers (and even many judicial powers) have today been usurped by the administrative arm of \u201cDeep State\u201d and its never-ending deluge of regulations and decrees. Almost none of those decrees include mens rea<\/em> protections requiring the feds to prove intent in order to convict.<\/p>\n That means, among other things, that virtually every American commits multiple federal crimes each day without even knowing it, according to the book Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent<\/em> by attorney Harvey Silverglate. In other words, any American who crossed the Deep State could, theoretically, be targeted for violating some criminal regulation that he or she never even heard of. That is one of the things that makes the ongoing \u201cfishing expedition\u201d against Trump and his associates by Special Counsel Robert Mueller<\/a>, a longtime Deep State operative, so dangerous. Experts such as prominent law professor emeritus John Baker say there is literally no American over 18 who could not be charged with some federal crime. Combined with the out-of-control \u201cintelligence\u201d apparatus<\/a> \u2014 another crucial component of the Deep State \u2014 literally nobody is safe. The vicious takedown of Trump\u2019s first national security advisor, Mike Flynn, appears to have been a clear-cut example<\/a> of the \u201cDeep State\u201d getting revenge on one of its enemies. The malicious federal persecution of conservative author Dinesh D\u2019Souza, who wrote books exposing Obama, appears to be another. In both cases, the men were taken down for minor pecadillos that, compared to what goes on in Washington, would be the equivalent of a parking ticket.<\/p>\n Of course, different people mean different things when they talk about the \u201cDeep State.\u201d In the series of articles on the Deep State contained in this special report<\/a>, The New American<\/em> magazine also explores the Deep State behind the Deep State<\/a> \u2014 manifested in, among other organizations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg network, as well as the secret societies<\/a>. The \u201cintelligence\u201d apparatus, examined here<\/a>, is also crucial. But as for the massive army of lawless U.S. government functionaries, it is clear that this cancerous bureaucracy has become a crucial element of what is today known in the popular imagination as the \u201cDeep State.\u201d It is not alone, of course. And it is not even ultimately in charge. But it is extremely powerful, and it has countless ways to destroy its enemies. If the American people hope to protect their Constitution and their liberties from the forces arrayed against it, defanging the administrative arm of the \u201cDeep State\u201d will be essential. And right now, Trump has the power to put that process in motion \u2014 if only he will take steps to do it. Among other actions, Trump could appoint constitutionalists to lead constitutional bureaucracies, order work at all unconstitutional bureaucracies stopped immediately, and continue his historic and ongoing rollback of regulations. The Constitution is literally the solution.<\/p>\n Written by Alex Newman<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n U.S. intelligence agencies operate without any meaningful congressional or other governmental oversight, yet they take actions that affect U.S. policies worldwide and override U.S. laws and American freedoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n Amid a high-profile showdown with the \u201cintelligence community\u201d early in his term, President Donald Trump was repeatedly and viciously threatened \u2014 even with extreme threats such as dying in prison. What type of people can threaten the legally elected president of the United States and get away with it? Meet the \u201cintelligence\u201d and \u201csecurity\u201d tentacles of the \u201cDeep State,\u201d both of which now function largely as tools of the \u201cDeep State Behind the Deep State.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Since the presidential election, elements of what is often called the \u201cintelligence community\u201d have dropped the mask. For everyday Americans unaware of the out-of-control behavior of so many secretive government bureaucracies, it was shocking to hear lawmakers and bureaucrats acknowledge that the \u201cintelligence\u201d apparatus was taking on Trump \u2014 and to witness the Deep State\u2019s war against the legitimately elected president, such as the incessant leaks from inside the intelligence community. Those leaks included, of course, the now-discredited dirty dossier on Trump. But the intelligence community\u2019s employment of unsavory tactics, supposedly to safeguard national security, has been obvious to discerning Americans for many years.<\/p>\n That the sprawling network of secrecy-obsessed spy agencies do the dirty work for the Deep State behind the Deep State appears very clear. Indeed, many of the ostensible kingpins of the \u201cDeep State\u201d intelligence apparatus, as well as their key enablers, are members of the secret<\/a> and semi-secret<\/a> organizations exposed in this issue. For example, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) bosses routinely attend Bilderberg meetings. Virtually all of them have been members of the Council on Foreign Relations, and many have been involved with the Trilateral Commission. In addition, many of them have been involved with the secret societies such as Skull and Bones, as well as Bohemian Grove. George H.W. Bush, who ran the CIA before becoming president, was involved with every single one of them.<\/p>\n The examples are nearly endless. Disgraced General David Petraeus, who was put in charge of the CIA, is a regular Bilderberg attendee and a member of the globalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations, which has openly expressed its goal of undermining national sovereignty in favor of \u201cglobal governance.\u201d When he was done with his government \u201cservice,\u201d as with many other supposed \u201cpublic servants,\u201d he was scooped up by Wall Street investment behemoth KKR. Now, he spends some of his time shilling for the end of America and the emergence of a European Union-style \u201cNorth America.\u201d<\/a> His agenda and career trajectory are typical among loyal Deep State swamp creatures involved in \u201cintelligence\u201d and \u201csecurity.\u201d Similarly, Keith Alexander, who ran the NSA, attended Bilderberg before going on to the \u201cprivate sector\u201d to make big money with a crony cybersecurity company he founded. Another typical Deep State \u201cintelligence\u201d operative deeply intertwined with the Deep State behind the Deep State is Michael Hayden, who has led both the CIA and the NSA. Like Petraeus, Hayden is a member of the CFR and has attended the secretive annual Bilderberg gatherings on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n State Within a State<\/strong><\/p>\n Generally, at least for several generations now, American presidents and their closest cohorts have been very close to the Deep State behind the Deep State, if not outright ranking members of it. And so, typically, the \u201cintelligence community\u201d and the White House are on the same page. But with Trump, that synergy between the head of the executive branch and the espionage bureaucracies he ostensibly oversees appears to have been shattered.<\/p>\n It is now widely known, for instance, that the intelligence agencies were spying on Trump\u2019s team. In fact, it is now a documented fact that Trump\u2019s first national security advisor, Michael Flynn, had his phone conversations monitored by the intelligence agencies. That is how they knew that he made a false statement to the FBI. (Obviously nothing improper or illegal was said during the monitored calls, or Flynn would not have gotten off by pleading guilty to the minor charge of making a false statement.)<\/p>\n On top of that, during the first year of Trump\u2019s term in office, there was a non-stop deluge of leaks orchestrated by \u201cDeep State\u201d bureaucrats, averaging one per day. Each one was calculated to impede Trump and sabotage his presidency. Frustrated, Trump finally lashed out, suggesting \u2014 with good reason \u2014 that operatives of the \u201cintelligence community\u201d were trying to sabotage him and his administration, and that they would be caught and then prosecuted. Then came some shocking responses from the Deep State. \u201cNow we go nuclear,\u201d wrote former NSA analyst John Schindler on social media. \u201c[Intelligence community] war going to new levels. Just got an [e-mail from] senior [intelligence community] friend, it began: \u2018He [Trump] will die in jail.<\/em>\u2019\u201d (Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n Anyone who could threaten the elected president of the United States with death in jail \u2014 and get away with it \u2014 clearly has power far beyond what everyday Americans realize. In Washington, D.C., though, this reality is well known and widely understood. Even top lawmakers openly talk about it, as if it were common knowledge on Capitol Hill. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate minority leader, for instance, offered chilling remarks that lifted the veil, at least partially, on how the Deep State intelligence \u201cswamp\u201d really works. \u201cLet me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,\u201d Schumer told far-left activist Rachel Maddow, of MSNBC, in January of 2017. \u201cSo even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he\u2019s being really dumb to do this.\u201d Schumer, who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, did not elaborate on how unelected bureaucracies supposedly subject to the American people\u2019s elected leaders would be \u201cgetting back\u201d at Trump. But the threat was unmistakable.<\/p>\n Since Trump burst on to the national political stage in the latest election, most of the criticism about the Deep State\u2019s intelligence network has come from conservatives and Republicans. Even some honest Democrats, though, have expressed concerns about the Deep State intelligence apparatus and its war on the president \u2014 and by extension those who elected him. \u201cYou have politicization of agencies that is resulting in leaks from anonymous, unknown people and the intention is to take down a president,\u201d former Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) told Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity. \u201cNow, this is very dangerous to America. It\u2019s a threat to our republic, it constitutes a clear and present danger to our way of life. So we have to be asking, what is the motive of these people? Who\u2019s putting these leaks out? Why doesn\u2019t somebody come forward and make a charge and put their name and reputation behind it, instead of attacking through the media and not substantiating their position?\u201d<\/p>\n After confirming that he believed President Trump was \u201cunder attack\u201d by the \u201cDeep State intelligence community,\u201d Kucinich went even further, saying that it targets anyone who stands in its way and starts wars all on its own. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to stand up for America, this isn\u2019t about Democrat, Republican,\u201d said the left-leaning Democrat. \u201cThis is about getting what\u2019s going on in the moment and understanding that our country itself is under attack from within.\u201d<\/p>\n Even Congress is not safe from the Deep State intelligence machine\u2019s illegal snooping. In 2014, Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) exposed the CIA for spying on her committee\u2019s staffers charged with oversight of the CIA. She also accused the agency of deleting files from the Senate committee\u2019s computers. \u201cIt may have undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities or any other government function,\u201d she said on the Senate floor, adding that several CIA officials had admitted the scheming. With the ability to spy on lawmakers (or Supreme Court justices or presidents) comes the ability to blackmail them, too. No wonder Schumer says the Deep State agencies have \u201csix ways from Sunday\u201d to get their enemies.<\/p>\n The bloated \u201cintelligence community\u201d bureaucracy, which is made up of some 16 (known) individual bureaucracies, includes the well-known CIA, the NSA, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It also includes many lesser-known bureaucracies burrowed into various Cabinet-level departments such as Defense, Homeland Security, Treasury, Energy, State, and Justice. Each branch of the U.S. Armed Services has an intelligence agency, too. According to an investigation by the Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, there are more than 1,250 government organizations and almost 2,000 companies in 10,000 locations across America involved in the U.S. intelligence apparatus. In addition, there are reportedly almost a million \u201ccontractors,\u201d bureaucrats, and military personnel with top-secret clearances.<\/p>\n Some functions of these bureaucracies, of course, are critical to national security. And many employees of the agencies are decent, patriotic Americans working hard to keep America safe. But there is a dark underbelly to the intelligence community. If left unchecked, it literally threatens liberty and self-government. And for some observers, it is the Deep State itself. Among the earliest individuals to use the term \u201cDeep State\u201d and apply it to the United States was Mike Lofgren, a congressional staffer with a top-secret security clearance for almost three decades, specializing in national security. The Deep State is \u201cthe state within a state,\u201d wrote Lofgren in 2014. \u201cThe Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n The NSA, which was exposed by multiple whistleblowers as spying on virtually everyone without a warrant, is a \u201ccore component of the Deep State,\u201d said Lofgren, author of the 2016 book The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government<\/em>. The National Security Council, currently controlled by establishment globalist H.R. McMaster, coordinates the Deep State agencies, he said. Even parts of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, Lofgren added, pointing to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court. And Big Business giants in Silicon Valley have been \u201cconscripted\u201d by the Deep State into helping spy on everyone, said Lofgren. The power of this apparatus is beyond enormous. As the saying goes, knowledge is power \u2014 and the Deep State, spying on everyone all the time, has a lot of knowledge.<\/p>\n Dirty Dealings<\/strong><\/p>\n The Deep State\u2019s enormous spying powers are supposedly being used to protect the American people and their freedoms from the threat of terrorism. But American freedom is hardly protected when the target of the spying includes the American people as a whole, in contravention of the Fourth Amendment, which states that \u201cthe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.\u201d<\/p>\n Supposedly the intelligence apparatus is watching us for our own good. But who is watching the watchers? The intelligence community, after all, operates in secrecy, without even Congress, let along the public at large, being aware of many of their actions, which extend way beyond illegal spying to include torture in contravention of U.S. laws, assassinations without due process, and the toppling of foreign governments without a congressional declaration of war. Do such extra-constitutional actions by the Deep State-controlled intelligence apparatus really protect American security and liberty, or do they have the opposite effect? Please keep these questions in mind as we survey some examples of the Deep State\u2019s intelligence arm in action:<\/p>\n \u2022 Deep State-backed jihadists<\/em> \u2014 In the name of fighting communism, the \u201cintelligence community\u201d literally armed, funded, and trained Osama bin Laden and other jihadists in Afghanistan who later became enemies of the United States. And in the name of fighting terrorism, this practice of aiding and abetting jihadists has continued to the present day, and has even included support for terrorists led by al-Qaeda. Seriously. For example, an explosive 2012 document from the DIA exposed<\/a> several stunning facts about what the Deep State was up to in Syria. For one, it shows the Deep State knew that the insurgency in Syria was being led by al-Qaeda \u2014 and that the administration was supporting that insurgency anyway. \u201cThe Salafist [extreme Islamist sect], the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [Al Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria,\u201d admitted the report, dated August 12, 2012. It also admitted that \u201cWestern powers,\u201d certainly including the Obama administration in power at the time, support that al-Qaeda-led opposition.<\/p>\n The memo goes on to outline a plan to create an Islamic State in Eastern Syria based on extreme fundamentalist Islamism. \u201cThere is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist [fundamentalist Islam] principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor) and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime,\u201d the document declares. That is also exactly what happened when ISIS declared the establishment of its \u201ccaliphate\u201d in Eastern Syria and parts of Iraq. In short, the memo offers smoking-gun proof that creating a \u201cSalafist principality\u201d in Eastern Syria was a policy goal of the Deep State.<\/p>\n \u2022 Assassination and mass murder \u2014<\/em> Islamic terrorism has been the key justification for a development that first became public under the George W. Bush administration: the deliberate assassination of individuals declared to be \u201cmilitants\u201d or \u201cterrorists.\u201d Murder is the correct term, because the victims have usually never even been charged with a crime, much less convicted by a jury in a court of law. There are also no current wars legally declared by Congress that might be cited to justify the assassination spree.<\/p>\n So extreme have the developments become that a former senior intelligence official told the Washington Post<\/em> that the CIA had been turned into \u201cone hell of a killing machine.\u201d<\/a> A former leader of the CIA and NSA was caught on video in 2014 casually bragging and making jokes in public<\/a> about how the \u201cintelligence community\u201d murders people without charges or convictions or a declaration of war. \u201cWe kill people based on metadata,\u201d gloated former CIA and NSA boss Hayden at the 2014 Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Foreign Affairs Symposium. Some of the victims include U.S.-born American-citizen children such as Nawar al-Awlaki, eight, and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16, who were killed in separate strikes.<\/p>\n It is today public knowledge that the CIA has murdered thousands of people around the world using missiles fired from drones. Between 2009 and 2015, the Obama White House estimated that 2,436 people were killed in drone strikes. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism recorded 2,753.<\/p>\n \u2022 Kidnapping and torture \u2014<\/em> Both are illegal under state and federal law, with no exemptions for Deep State intelligence functionaries. In 2009, an Italian court convicted (in absentia) 23 CIA agents for kidnapping<\/a> Egyptian dissident Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off the streets of Milan in a 2003 incident. After grabbing him and stuffing him in a van, the CIA sent him to Egypt for interrogation and torture there. He reportedly endured electrical shock torture, emerging permanently disabled. And who could forget the horrifying pictures that have emerged from Iraq and the CIA\u2019s sprawling network of secret prisons \u2014 pictures that have now been plastered across newspaper stands worldwide, making America look like a nation of savage barbarians running wild? Confirmed torture methods by the CIA, the DIA, and other Deep State agencies have included waterboarding and beatings, among other horrors.<\/p>\n \u2022 Overthrowing governments \u2014<\/em> The CIA has a long history of overthrowing foreign governments, without any semblance of a constitutional declaration of war from Congress. From Iran and Guatemala to Congo and the Dominican Republic, the CIA has played a key role in overthrowing more than a half-dozen governments where its involvement is publicly known \u2014 and probably plenty more where the CIA\u2019s role is still hidden. Foreign Policy<\/em> estimates the number of governments overthrown by the CIA at seven<\/a>. That does not include numerous other operations where the U.S. government \u2014 or at least the Deep State \u2014 used military intervention, assassination, or covert backing for insurgencies. That also does not take into account interventions where there was no regime change but where other goals were pursued.<\/p>\n \u2022 False flags \u2014<\/em> In some cases, elements of the Deep State have even shown that they are not above using \u201cfalse flags\u201d to carry out their agenda. Documents from the U.S. Defense Department on Operation Northwoods<\/a>, for example, outlined a proposed plot in the early 1960s to have the CIA or other Deep State agencies perpetrate terrorist attacks against American or Cuban civilians or military targets and to blame it on the Castro regime. One scenario involved shooting down an airliner. Another involved bombings in Miami. Yet another would have sunk a boat filled with refugees fleeing Castro\u2019s tyranny. \u201cThe desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere,\u201d the document states. The plan was ultimately rejected by then-President John F. Kennedy, but the fact that it was developed at all is very revealing. Ironically, it was the U.S. government and the Deep State behind the Deep State who put Castro in power to begin with, according to the U.S. ambassador to Cuba at the time, Earl Smith, who even wrote a book about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mind control \u2014<\/em> Under the guise of keeping up with communist brainwashing techniques, the CIA also engaged in horrific experiments related to mind control. Among other tactics, federal officials used LSD and mind-altering chemicals, surviving files from the CIA\u2019s Project MKUltra<\/a> show. According to congressional investigations and testimony from victims, the experiments also included hypnosis, sexual abuse, and torture. Then-CIA boss Richard Helms reportedly tried to obstruct congressional investigations by ordering all MKUltra documents destroyed. Still, at least two congressional committees investigating MKUltra uncovered horrifying experiments often performed on unwitting victims \u2014 including individuals confined in mental institutions and even children.<\/p>\n \u2022 Drug trafficking \u2014<\/em> The CIA\u2019s involvement in drug trafficking has long been an open secret. More than a few officials, drug lords, and analysts have even said the CIA and other secretive agencies actually run<\/em> the global trade in narcotics. Former DEA chief Robert Bonner, during an explosive interview with CBS<\/a>, revealed that his agency had caught the CIA unlawfully importing a ton<\/em> of cocaine into the United States in cooperation with the Venezuelan government. More recently, a Mexican official accused the CIA of \u201cmanaging\u201d the global drug trade<\/a>. \u201cIt is impossible to pass tons of drugs or cocaine to the U.S. without some grade of complicity of some American authorities,\u201d observed Mexican President Felipe Calder\u00f3n in a 2009 interview with the BBC. And an explosive 2014 investigation by the Mexican newspaper El Universal<\/em> revealed that for over a decade, the U.S. government had a secret agreement with the ruthless Mexican Sinaloa cartel<\/a> that allowed it to operate with impunity and ship drugs into America at will.<\/p>\n \u2022 Working with criminals \u2014<\/em>The \u201cintelligence\u201d and \u201cnational security\u201d components of the Deep State have a long and troubling history with criminals and criminality \u2014 so much so that in many cases it is hard to tell where the criminal networks begin and the government ends. One recent example is the now-infamous \u201cOperation Fast and Furious.\u201d As part of the scheme, the Justice Department, the ATF, and other components of the Deep State were caught transferring American weapons to brutal Mexican drug cartels for the supposed purpose of catching the target of an investigation. Yet that target was already on the FBI\u2019s payroll<\/a>. NRA official Wayne LaPierre (among others) reasoned that the real purpose was to undermine the Second Amendment. \u201cIt\u2019s the only thing that makes any sense,\u201d LaPierre said in a 2011 interview with Newsmax TV. \u201cOver a period of two or three years they were running thousands and thousands of guns to the most evil people on earth. At the same time they were yelling \u201890 per cent \u2026 of the guns the Mexican drug cartels are using come from the United States.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Media manipulation \u2014<\/em> The intelligence component of the Deep State has also been caught using propaganda and manipulation of the media \u2014 against Americans. One stunning example revealed in declassified documents was the CIA\u2019s Project Mockingbird (also known as Operation Mockingbird)<\/a>. According to official documents, the scheme, launched in the early 1950s, aimed to hijack the U.S. media to parrot CIA propaganda. Though many of the documents are heavily redacted, it is clear that the CIA program was wildly successful in recruiting globalist pseudo-journalists to do the Deep State\u2019s bidding. Among the names mentioned in the documents are Joseph Harsch of the Christian Science Monitor<\/em>; Henry Luce, founder of Time<\/em> and Life<\/em> magazines; Walter Lippman of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate; and more. William F. Buckley, founder of the neocon journal National Review<\/em>, was also a CIA lackey.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mass surveillance \u2014<\/em> Then there is the lawless spying on Americans revealed by whistleblowers. Among the most important insiders to expose the problem was William Binney, a senior NSA official who spent 30 years at the agency before resigning to expose the criminal surveillance of the American people. \u201cI knew I could not stay because it was a direct violation of the constitutional rights of everybody in the country,\u201d he explained, citing the \u201cStellar Wind\u201d program. \u201c[The NSA] can build up knowledge about everyone in the country, and having that knowledge then allows them the ability to concoct all kinds of charges if they want to target you,\u201d he said. Basically, the NSA knows virtually everything about everyone, he suggested, adding that the agency has collected and stored most of the e-mails sent and received by Americans and at least 80 percent of phone calls.<\/p>\n In short, the \u201cintelligence\u201d apparatus, run by leading agents of the Deep State behind the Deep State, has been doing practically whatever it wishes to do, with no transparency or accountability. And it now seems to have its sights set on undermining both the elected president, and the Constitution.<\/p>\n Written by Alex Newman<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n Despite generally claiming to be part of discussion groups, members of globalist, anti-American groups occasionally tell what they are really up to \u2014 and it\u2019s not good for us.<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite the regular references in the establishment press these days to the Deep State as a nebulous force working behind the scenes to attack President Donald Trump, little has been said about the Deep State behind the Deep State \u2014 or the real Deep State. Until now.<\/p>\n Parts of this shadowy network \u2014 the Council on Foreign Relations (shown), the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, and more \u2014 are sometimes visible to the public, even if the establishment media rarely highlight the significance. Other powerful elements are practically invisible: Secret societies such as Skull and Bones and the Bohemian Grove, for example, which are described here<\/a>. But combined, it is clear that the Deep State behind the Deep State wields tremendous power over America and the world. The agenda is becoming clear, too. If left unchecked, this powerful network of Deep State operatives fully intends to foist a draconian system on humanity that they often tout as the \u201cNew World Order.\u201d But the American people have the power to stop it.<\/p>\n Much of what has been referred to as the Deep State is merely part of the government \u2014 the legions of entrenched Big Government bureaucrats<\/a> and especially the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and other secretive agencies<\/a>. Other analysts have pointed \u2014 quite properly \u2014 to elements of the Big Business community. Former congressional staffer Mike Lofgren, a top-secret security clearance holder and one of the early voices to develop the idea of a Deep State in America, refers to it as \u201ca hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country.\u201d And he\u2019s right. But it goes even deeper than he seems to realize.<\/p>\n Of course, Lofgren was hardly the first to notice that the elected officials who supposedly control the government are not really in charge. Even close friends and associates of the Deep State behind the Deep State have commented on the issue as it relates to party politics and elections. The late Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley, a mentor to President Bill Clinton, was for many years close to the core of the Deep State. He was even allowed to examine its records for a period of time. And then, spilling the proverbial beans, Quigley put some of his explosive findings in his massive 1966 book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time<\/em>. Referring to the Deep State as an \u201cinternational Anglophile network,\u201d the professor said he had \u201cno aversion to it or to most of its aims,\u201d and added that he had been \u201cclose to it and many of its instruments\u201d for much of his life.<\/p>\n On political parties and using elections to change course in government, Quigley ridiculed the idea. \u201cThe argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers,\u201d Quigley wrote in his book, publication of which reportedly made the Deep State quite upset. \u201cInstead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can \u2018throw the rascals out\u2019 at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.\u201d<\/p>\n Quigley also offered insight into the agenda and machinations of the real Deep State. \u201cThe powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole,\u201d he explained. \u201cThis system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.\u201d Some of those meetings, such as the G20, are well known. Others, such as the Club of Rome, the World Government Summit, Bilderberg, etc., while even more important, are almost never mentioned, and remained virtually unknown to most Americans.<\/p>\n There exists a shadowy network of organizations controlled by the Deep State behind the Deep State that serves to coordinate the operations and tentacles of the machine. While secretive, many of the outfits are not secret societies in the true sense of the term. In fact, they have websites, put out reports, and in many cases even make their membership lists public. That these organizations wield incredible power in government, media, academia, the military, banking, intelligence, business, and more is beyond dispute. Their goals, too, are relatively transparent at this point. The question is whether enough Americans will recognize the danger, before it is too late.<\/p>\n Council on Foreign Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n What Professor Quigley revealed in Tragedy and Hope<\/em> was huge. \u201cThere does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act,\u201d Quigley wrote in his book. \u201cIn fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.\u201d The leading Round Table Groups he identifies include the Council on Foreign Relations<\/a> (CFR) in the United States and its sister organization in Britain known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA, sometimes referred to as Chatham House).<\/p>\n The CFR was founded in 1921 by establishment mega-bankers and globalist ideologists anxious to get America ensnared in foreign entanglements after the U.S. Senate declined to join the League of Nations. In America, it is among the most powerful organizations representing the public face of the Deep State behind the Deep State. To get some sense of how influential the outfit is, consider the words of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose husband and daughter are members, in a 2009 speech at the CFR\u2019s new office in Washington. \u201cI am delighted to be here in these new headquarters,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cI have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it\u2019s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won\u2019t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, the unelected CFR establishment sets policy, and the visible government implements it. The same applies to the establishment wing of the Republican Party, which is also dominated by CFR operatives. Knowing how toxic the CFR label has become politically among conservatives, though, a leading CFR \u201cRepublican\u201d actually boasted of his dishonesty in concealing his membership from the public.<\/p>\n George W. Bush\u2019s Vice President Dick Cheney, for example, was filmed on video bragging<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve been a member [of the CFR] for a long time, and was actually a director for some period of time. I never mentioned that when I was campaigning for re-election back home in Wyoming.\u201d He cackled, and the audience laughed. But he is hardly alone.<\/p>\n Members include virtually the entire establishment<\/a>. Among others: vast swaths of the Republican and Democrat parties\u2019 establishments; countless current and former members of Congress and senior bureaucrats; \u201cjournalists,\u201d columnists, editors, anchors, commentators, and media execs; CEOs, chairmen, and presidents of mega-banks; multiple Cabinet secretaries in every administration going back generations; current Supreme Court justices; former presidents and vice presidents; Federal Reserve bosses; celebrities; mega-church pastors; military brass; ambassadors, diplomats, and bureaucrats at international organizations; tax-exempt foundation chiefs and executives; leaders and professors at key universities across the country; \u201cintelligence community\u201d bosses who do much of the Deep State\u2019s dirty work; and many more. Even some pseudo-conservative \u201cleaders,\u201d mostly neocons, are involved in the CFR.<\/p>\n Corporate members include the world\u2019s largest bailed-out mega-banks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, crony capitalists, the military-industrial complex, and publishing houses, along with much of the establishment media. Among the mega-banks and financial giants: Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, American Express, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Soros Fund Management, Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Cr\u00e9dit Agricole, Rothschild North America, Inc., and more. Military-industrial complex: DynCorp, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Raytheon Company, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and more. Big Oil: ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, Hess, and more. Media: News Corp (Fox News, Wall Street Journal,<\/em> New York Post,<\/em> National Geographic<\/em>, and more), Time Warner (CNN, HBO), The Economist,<\/em> Bloomberg, and more.<\/p>\n Within the CFR, which has fewer than 5,000 members at any given time, there is a core of figures who play a key role in guiding the organization. The late U.S. Admiral Chester Ward, a CFR member for almost 20 years before defecting and blowing the whistle, wrote in his book Kissin\u00adger on the Couch<\/em> that within the CFR there exists a \u201cmuch smaller group but more powerful \u2026 made up of Wall Street international bankers and their key agents.\u201d Primarily, he continued, the members of this smaller group \u201cwant the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in control of the global government.\u201d This CFR leadership faction, he added, \u201cis headed by the Rockefeller brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, not everyone involved in the CFR supports the globalist Deep State agenda. But according to Ward, most do. The former judge advocate general for the Navy explained, among other concerns, the danger of the CFR, the nature of its agenda, and the ideology of most of its members. He also exposed their power over policy and their methods. \u201cOnce the ruling members of CFR have decided that the U.S. Government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of CFR are put to work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cThe most articulate theoreticians and ideologists prepare related articles, aided by the research, to sell the new policy and to make it appear inevitable and irresistible. By following the evolution of this propaganda in the most prestigious scholarly journal in the world, [CFR mouthpiece] Foreign Affairs<\/em>, anyone can determine years in advance what the future defense and foreign policies of the United States will be,\u201d he added. \u201cIf a certain proposition is repeated often enough in that journal, then the U.S. Administration in power \u2014 be it Republican or Democratic \u2014 begins to act as if that proposition or assumption were an established fact.\u201d<\/p>\n The ultimate goal of the CFR, Ward warned, is global government. \u201cThe main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence, and submergence into an all-powerful one-world government,\u201d warned the widely respected U.S. admiral. \u201cThis lust to surrender the sovereignty and independence of the United States is pervasive throughout most of the membership.\u201d Ward also previewed why the CFR\u2019s members would be so violently hostile to Trump\u2019s campaign promises. \u201cIn the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as \u2018America First,\u2019\u201d he said. Trump, of course, campaigned on an America First platform to stop globalism.<\/p>\n The subversive agenda to betray the American people and subvert their independence, Constitution, and self-government has been made clear even in the CFR\u2019s own propaganda organs such as Foreign Affairs. In April 1974, for example, Richard Gardner, former deputy assistant secretary of state, explained how the agenda for world government would be pursued. \u201cIn short, the \u2018house of world order\u2019 will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAn end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault.\u201d Deception and a slow subversion process, then, are the tools of the CFR. The magazine also regularly promotes regional government, illegal war, and other extreme positions.<\/p>\n The Trilateral Commission<\/strong><\/p>\n Another outfit like the CFR, only more \u201celite\u201d and more international, is the Trilateral Commission<\/a>, founded in 1973 by the late globalist and self-described conspirator for a one-world order David Rockefeller. The late Rockefeller, of course, also played a leading role in the CFR, becoming a member in 1941 and serving as chairman of the board from 1970 until 1985, and an honorary chairman until his death in 2017 at age 101. As with so many Deep State tentacles, the Rockefellers \u2014 and especially David \u2014 have been crucial<\/a> to the Trilateral Commission. Indeed, David Rockefeller was appointed the first chairman.<\/p>\n Aside from Rockefeller, who in his memoirs boasted of \u201cconspiring\u201d with a \u201csecret cabal\u201d against the best interests of America to form a \u201cone world\u201d order, the other key figure behind the Trilateral Commission was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who at the time was at Columbia University\u2019s Russian Studies department. Eventually, he became an advisor to Rockefeller, the North America director of the Trilateral Commission, and the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter. He also was a key player in arming the jihadist \u201cmujaheddin\u201d holy warriors in Afghanistan, whose descendants the U.S. military is currently battling.<\/p>\n Decades ago, Brzezinski\u2019s writings greatly impressed Rockefeller \u2014 so much so that Rockefeller decided to take Brzezinski under his wing. Among Brzezinski\u2019s ideas that caught Rockefeller\u2019s attention were those outlined in his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America\u2019s Role in the Technetronic Era<\/a><\/em>. In the book, Brzezinski argued, in essence, that America was \u201cobsolete,\u201d and that a new world order needed to be created to take the place of the previous U.S.-dominated system. Rockefeller, apparently, agreed.<\/p>\n While Brzezinski\u2019s book acknowledged some of the problems in the Soviet Union, it also showered praise on Marxism. \u201cMarxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man\u2019s universal vision,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMarxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief: it stresses man\u2019s capacity to shape his material destiny \u2014 finite and defined as man\u2019s only reality \u2014 and it postulates the absolute capacity of man to truly understand his reality as a point of departure for his active endeavors to shape it. To a greater extent than any previous mode of political thinking, Marxism puts a premium on the systematic and rigorous examination of material reality and on guides to action derived from that examination.\u201d<\/p>\n Following his attack on obsolete America and his praise for Marxism, Brze\u00adzinski, a member of the CFR before his death, went on to advocate the creation of \u201ca council for global cooperation\u201d bringing together \u201cthe United States, Japan, and Western Europe.\u201d This body, he wrote, would \u201cbe concerned with political strategy\u201d and \u201cbringing together the political leaders of states sharing certain common aspirations and problems of modernity.\u201d But in the end of the book, Brzezinski revealed the real purpose of his proposed council: another critical step on the road to a global government that brings together the communist and non-communist nations into one unified regime.<\/p>\n \u201cTo sum up: Though the objective of shaping a community of the developed nations is less ambitious than the goal of world government, it is more attainable,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt is more ambitious than the concept of an Atlantic community but historically more relevant to the new spatial revolution. Though cognizant of present divisions between communist and non-communist nations, it attempts to create a new framework for international affairs not by exploiting these divisions but rather by striving to preserve and create openings for eventual reconciliation. Finally, it recognizes that the world\u2019s developed nations have a certain affinity, and that only by nurturing a greater sense of communality among them can an effective response to the increasing threat of global fragmentation \u2014 which itself intensifies the growing world-wide impatience with human inequality \u2014 be mounted.\u201d Rockefeller apparently agreed, spawning the Trilateral Commission.<\/p>\n Much less has been written about the Trilateral Commission than, say, the CFR, but its influence is nevertheless enormous. And even well-respected conservatives have long recognized the threat this outfit poses to liberty and America. In his 1979 memoir With No Apologies<\/em>, Senator Barry Goldwater exposed its agenda. \u201cIn my view the Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power \u2014 political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhat the Trilaterals truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved\u2026. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Around that time, a major expos\u00e9 of the Trilateral Commission was written by Stanford historian Antony Sutton and researcher Patrick Wood, entitled Trilaterals Over Washington<\/a><\/em>. In a recent statement to The New American, Wood highlighted the significance of the organization. \u201cThe Trilateral Commission was international, founded to create a \u2018New International Economic Order,\u2019\u201d explained Wood, editor of Technocracy.news and a nationally known speaker. \u201cTheir members have been the architects and drivers of all modern globalization, including that which comes through the United Nations as Sustainable Development and Green Economy. Although the Trilateral Commission is international in scope, in the U.S. they are more than just being part of the so-called Deep State, they ARE the Deep State!\u201d<\/p>\n Aside from the pursuit of globalism by bringing together key influential figures from Europe, Japan, and North America, a crucial element of the Trilateral Commission was and remains the \u201cNew International Economic Order\u201d (NIEO) described by Wood. At first, the idea confused observers. Eventually, though, Wood concluded that the NIEO \u2014 an idea regularly promoted by the UN, even using the same term \u2014 was a re-branding of the older movement for \u201ctechnocracy.\u201d In fact, Brzezinski\u2019s 1970s book, which purports to deal with \u201cAmerica\u2019s Role in the Technetronic Era,\u201d makes that clear. In essence, a global technocracy would involve rule not by elected representatives, but by technocrats. Freedom would be a thing of the past. And it appears to be coming into view.<\/p>\n Far from concealing his agenda, Brze\u00adzinski continually boasted about it when surrounded by his comrades. For instance, in 1995, speaking at the \u201cState of the World Forum\u201d convened by former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev and backed by the Rockefellers and other establishment forces in the West, the luminary behind the Trilateral Commission proudly touted the vision for a one-world regime. \u201cWe do not have a New World Order\u2026. We cannot leap into world government in one quick step,\u201d he explained. \u201cIn brief, the precondition for eventual globalization \u2014 genuine globalization \u2014 is progressive regionalization, because thereby we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.\u201d And indeed, the crucial Deep State organization has played a key role in accelerating that process in Europe via the European Union, in North America using NAFTA, and in the Pacific region using a wide array of transnational regimes.<\/p>\n The Bilderberg Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to the CFR and the Trilateral Commission, there is yet another shadowy outfit with Rockefeller and other establishment globalists at its core: Bilderberg. Founded in 1954 by former Nazi SS member Prince Bernhard, the annual meetings and the network behind them started at the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands, ostensibly as a \u201cforum for informal discussions, designed to foster dialogue.\u201d Generally there are between 120 and 150 attendees, most of whom come from Europe and North America, representing every tentacle of establishment power. More than a few analysts have referred to Bilderberg as the \u201cshadow\u201d global government. And there is some truth to the charge. But in reality the true \u201cDeep State behind the Deep State\u201d is more complex than that.<\/p>\n Most recently, the Bilderberg group met this summer in Chantilly, Virginia. Until recent years, the network, which hosts annual meetings organized by a steering committee, was virtually unknown to the American public, despite the regular attendance of many of the world\u2019s most influential people and their useful idiots \u2014 including top \u201cjournalists.\u201d Among the attendees is a collection of powerful figures from Big Government, Big Green, Big Media, Big Oil, Big Espionage, Big Banks, Big War, Big Internet, Big Foundations, Big Communism, Big Data<\/a>, and most of the other important \u201cBigs.\u201d Virtually all of the attendees share at least one common element though: a fanatical devotion to globalism and secrecy<\/a>.<\/p>\n In public, Bilderberg summit organizers work to downplay the confab as a mere off-the-record discussion forum. A press release<\/a> from Bilderberg released ahead of this year\u2019s summit, for example, claims the purpose is merely to stimulate \u201cdialogue\u201d between \u201cEurope and North America.\u201d \u201cThere is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written. Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued,\u201d claims the statement posted on Bilderberg\u2019s official website. Numerous attendees, though, have suggested and even openly admitted in public statements over the years that much more than a mere \u201cprivate talk\u201d is in fact going on at the controversial summit.<\/p>\n In fact, multiple attendees have admitted in public comments that policy is indeed discussed \u2014 and even set \u2014 behind Bilderberg\u2019s closed doors and its legions of mostly tax-funded security. For example, in 2010, former NATO boss and two-time Bilderberg attendee Willy Claes explained in a radio interview that reports of speeches given at the summit are, in fact, compiled. \u201cThe participants are then obviously considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect,\u201d Claes added. Analysts said the remark was essentially an admission that Bilderberg attendees are secretly plotting your future behind closed doors \u2014 and they are.<\/p>\n Claes was hardly the only one to spill the beans. The year before Claes\u2019 stunning public admission, then-Bilderberg chairman Etienne Davignon \u2014 a former European Union commissar and current Belgian minister of state \u2014 told the online publication EUobserver that the network and the annual meetings \u201chelped create\u201d the controversial euro currency imposed on 17 (and counting) formerly sovereign European nations. Much evidence also suggests that the summits played a major role in foisting the EU superstate on the peoples of Europe against their will \u2014 a process that continues despite the lack of even a semblance of public support. Speaking to the BBC in 2005, Davignon also admitted that at the summit, \u201cautomatically around the table you have internationalists.\u201d Internationalist<\/em> is just another term for globalist.<\/em><\/p>\n This writer had an opportunity to go to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2014 to cover the Bilderberg summit taking place there for The New American magazine. And outside the confab, which as usual took place at a fancy hotel, Diederik Samsom, a Bilderberg attendee and the leader of the Socialist International-aligned Dutch Labor Party, admitted on camera that he was attending the summit in his official capacity as parliamentary leader. Asked if he was there in an informal capacity, as Bilderberg claimed, Samsom responded: \u201cWell, I\u2019m formal, because being a politician, you\u2019re 24\/7, so there\u2019s no way of exiting my role.\u201d By contrast, the Bilderberg website says, \u201cParticipants take part in the conference as individuals in their own right.\u201d The comments by the Dutch lawmaker and \u201csustainability\u201d zealot, however, suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n It was hardly the first time that a Bilderberg attendee had contradicted, in public, the official narrative sold to the masses. In fact, more than 15 years ago, radical left-wing Bilderberg attendee Will Hutton \u2014 a former British newspaper editor, a pro-EU extremist, and a vehement opponent of American conservatism \u2014 also hinted at the influence of the gathering and its role in global policymaking. \u201c[Bilderberg] is one of the key meetings of the year,\u201d he wrote in 1998. \u201cThe consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide.\u201d The admission could not get much clearer than that. And yet, officially at least, the Bilderberg network continues to claim that the meetings are simply forums for discussion.<\/p>\n As if the fruit were not clear enough, the policy vision of Bilderberg bosses has also been publicly articulated by attendees. Basically, what unites the seemingly disparate globalists appears to be mainly their fanatical devotion to globalism \u2014 the transfer of political power and self-government away from nation-states and the peoples who make up those nations to unaccountable supranational regimes controlled by Bilderberg attendees and other Deep State swamp creatures. While there are occasionally \u201cconservatives\u201d and even the odd \u201clibertarian\u201d who attend, all are globalists. Indeed, based on their public statements, at least, it appears that virtually every attendee at Bilderberg is and has been for more than six decades an enemy of national independence and a proponent of globalism and the ongoing global effort to undermine national sovereignty.<\/p>\n Indeed, many have admitted the agenda in public. In 2001, for instance, former British chancellor of the exchequer and Bilderberg bigwig Denis Healey told the left-wing U.K. Guardian<\/em>, one of the few papers that has provided extensive Bilderberg coverage, that it was a little \u201cexaggerated, but not wholly unfair\u201d to say that the outfit\u2019s overall goal was to impose a global government on humanity. \u201cThose of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn\u2019t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless,\u201d he claimed, as if the globalists were simply destroying nationhood for the benefit of humanity. \u201cSo we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.\u201d By \u201ccommunity,\u201d globalists really mean government \u2014 after all, the European Union was a \u201ccommunity\u201d before the full-blown superstate was openly announced.<\/p>\n Aside from guiding policy, a great deal of anecdotal evidence suggests Bilderberg plays a major role in selecting the policymakers in charge of foisting their schemes on an unsuspecting public. In 1991, for example, a virtually unknown governor from Arkansas attended. Shortly after that, he became President Bill Clinton. Obama, too, went to Bilderberg before becoming president. Multiple members of virtually every U.S. executive branch Cabinet for generations have also attended, including several of President Trump\u2019s top officials, such as Defense Secretary James Mattis, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry.<\/p>\n It is not just American politicians and bureaucrats whose careers seem to get a major boost from attending the summits, either. Tony Blair, for example, attended Bilderberg as a virtually unknown opposition member of Parliament. He then became prime minister shortly afterward. Numerous other British prime ministers, including David Cameron, have also attended. Other countries in Europe have faced similar occurrences, such as Bilderberg bigwig and Goldman Sachs operative Mario Monti being installed as the unelected prime minister of Italy in 2011, shortly after attending Bilderberg meetings. More than a few analysts have suggested that Bilderberg leaders were \u201cvetting\u201d puppet politicians to determine whether they would be a good fit.<\/p>\n At the European Union level \u2014 where voters and the peoples of Europe have virtually no say in governance \u2014 the same phenomenon has been observed. In 2005, even the state-funded BBC highlighted it. \u201cAll the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed,\u201d the broadcaster reported. EU overlords, of course, are not elected by the people. In 2009, meanwhile, former Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy \u2014 a virtual nobody unknown throughout the bloc \u2014 was mysteriously installed as EU \u201cpresident\u201d just days after attending the confab. In a bizarre speech that sparked criticism, ridicule, and alarm worldwide, he promptly announced that \u201cglobal governance\u201d was advancing.<\/p>\n Prevalence<\/strong><\/p>\n The Deep State behind the Deep State has a lot of overlap in terms of membership and leadership. Beyond the Bilderberg, CFR, Trilateral, and such establishment organs are other secretive and semi-secret organizations, such as the World Affairs Council, the Aspen Institute, Le Cercle, the Brookings Institution, the Club of Rome, the Atlantic Council, the World Economic Forum, and even the relatively new \u201cWorld Government Summit\u201d that last year erected the Arch of Baal at its confab in the United Arab Emirates. Each of these plays an important role in the Deep State\u2019s architecture.<\/p>\n The Deep State behind the Deep State also includes an array of secret societies, including Skull and Bones, Bohemian Grove, and others<\/a>. There are also key individual leaders of the Deep State behind the Deep State, including the Rockefeller, Soros, and Rothschild families<\/a>. Aside from the organizations they control, and in tandem with their influence exercised through government power, these figures also rely heavily on the tax-exempt foundations where they shelter their loot from taxes while funding efforts to advance their agenda.<\/p>\n And beyond all those that are known are, undoubtedly, others that are not even known publicly.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, Trump has many operatives for the real Deep State serving at the highest levels of his administration<\/a>. More than a few of his Cabinet secretaries, for example, are current or former members of the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, and more. As previously mentioned, some are also attendees of Bilderberg, with several senior Trump officials attending this year\u2019s Bilderberg meeting in Virginia. But, it is also becoming obvious that the Deep State behind the Deep State does not trust Trump \u2014 at best \u2014 and actively despises him at worst. That is a good sign, though it is no guarantee that anything will change.<\/p>\n For Christians, Jews, and God-fearing people generally, there is certainly a spiritual component to this whole \u201cDeep State\u201d agenda. But Americans do not need to be helpless victims of these shadowy forces. In this special report<\/a>, in addition to exposing the Deep State and its various tentacles, The New American<\/em> also offers potential solutions for people to get involved in this fight<\/a>. Americans who wish to see a return to self-government under the Constitution must get busy. There is an incredible opportunity, now, to set the Deep State\u2019s globalist agenda back by decades or even generations. Exposing the Deep State will be crucial. The American people, acting through Congress to stop it, will be key. But to seize the opportunity, Americans must get educated, activated, and organized.<\/p>\n Written by Alex Newman<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n With almost unlimited capital, Wall Street moneymen use it to centralize government. Their plans smack of worldwide crony capitalism, with government rules made to order.<\/strong><\/p>\n It may sound clich\u00e9, but there is a great deal of wisdom in the old saying about catching criminals: \u201cFollow the money.\u201d That advice applies as much to catching small-time petty thieves as it does to big-time global crime syndicates. And it is especially relevant when trying to understand the bureaucratic and intelligence community components of the Deep State, and more importantly, the Deep State behind the Deep State<\/a>. This shadowy network, which is barely concealed at this point, includes secret societies such as Skull and Bones and the Bohemian Grove<\/a>, as well as less-secretive organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg meetings<\/a>. Money is key.<\/p>\n Of course, as used by the establishment media, what has typically been referred to in recent months as the \u201cDeep State\u201d is simply just different parts of the federal government, particularly the permanent bureaucratic caste<\/a> and what is known as the \u201cintelligence community<\/a>.\u201d However, that is only part of the story. Others who have commented on this subject have noted the prominence of the Big Business community and Wall Street in regards to the Deep State. Former congressional staffer Mike Lofgren, a top-secret security clearance holder and one of the early voices to develop the idea of a \u201cDeep State\u201d in America, refers to it as \u201ca hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country.\u201d<\/p>\n Wall Street and the Deep State<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"The](\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen_Shot_2017_05_18_at_10_2.jpg\")
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