The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld | Global Research
The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld | Global Research
In the last decade it has become more and more obvious that we have in
America today what the journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin have
called
two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with,
operated more or less in the open: the other a parallel top secret
government whose parts had mushroomed in less than a decade into a
gigantic, sprawling universe of its own, visible to only a carefully
vetted cadre – and its entirety…visible only to God.1
And in 2013, particularly after the military return to power in
Egypt, more and more authors referred to this second level as America’s
“deep state.”2 Here for example is the Republican analyst Mike Lofgren:
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.3
