Anatomy of the Deep State

Anatomy of the Deep State

"There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington,
and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government
that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the
White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington
partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN
sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The
subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which
operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is
formally in power."
- Mike Lofgren