{"id":22829,"date":"2017-02-18T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T02:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22829"},"modified":"2017-02-18T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T02:13:13","slug":"the-shadow-governments-destruction-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22829","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow Government&#8217;s Destruction Of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-18\/shadow-governments-destruction-democracy\">The Shadow Government&#8217;s Destruction Of Democracy<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"messages-holder\"><\/section>\n<div class=\"tabs\">The &#8216;Deep State&#8217; has one simple rule &#8211;\u00a0<em>&#8220;do it my way&#8230; or else!&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-588547 ads-injected\" data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/02\/17\/20170218_deep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/02\/17\/20170218_deep_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grrrgraphics.com\/index.html\"><em>Source: Ben Garrison<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on the heels of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-16\/wake-america-dennis-kucinich-defends-trump-issues-dire-warning-about-deep-state\">\u00a0Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s warnings<\/a>, The Intercept&#8217;s Glenn Greenwald, who opposes Trump for a variety of reasons, warns that siding with the evidently powerful Deep State in the hopes of undermining Trump is dangerous.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/greenwald-kucinich-deep-state-trump\/\">As TheAntiMedia&#8217;s Carey Wedler notes<\/a>, Greenwald\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2017\/2\/16\/greenwald_empowering_the_deep_state_to\">asserted<\/a>\u00a0in an interview with\u00a0Democracy Now,\u00a0published on Thursday, that this boils down to a fight between the Deep State and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2017\/2\/16\/greenwald_empowering_the_deep_state_to\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>Though Greenwald has argued the leaks were \u201cwholly justified\u201d in spite of the fact they violated criminal law, he also questioned the motives behind them.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"injected-ad-wrapper\">\u201cIt\u2019s very possible \u2014 I\u2019d say likely \u2014 that the motive here was vindictive rather than noble,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhatever else is true, this is a case where the intelligence community, through strategic (and illegal) leaks, destroyed one of its primary adversaries in the Trump White House.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to an<a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/2014\/02\/21\/anatomy-of-the-deep-state\/\">\u00a0in-depth report\u00a0<\/a>by journalist Mike Lofgren:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Greenwald explained during his interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0<em>\u201cIt\u2019s agencies like the CIA, the NSA and the other intelligence agencies, that are essentially designed to disseminate disinformation and deceit and propaganda, and have a long history of doing not only that, but also have a long history of the world\u2019s worst war crimes, atrocities and death squads.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shadow Government&#8217;s Destruction Of Democracy The &#8216;Deep State&#8217; has one simple rule &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;do it my way&#8230; or else!&#8221; Source: Ben Garrison And on the heels of\u00a0Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s warnings, The Intercept&#8217;s Glenn Greenwald, who opposes Trump for a variety of reasons, warns that siding with the evidently powerful Deep State in the hopes of undermining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[8803,12055,135,199,204,5655,14512,7844,5437,577],"class_list":["post-22829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-antimedia","tag-carey-wedler","tag-cia","tag-deep-state","tag-democracy","tag-democracy-now","tag-dennis-kucinich","tag-donald-trump","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22830,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22829\/revisions\/22830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}