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The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The battle raging in the Deep State isn’t just a bureaucratic battle–it’s a war for the soul, identity and direction of the nation.<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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When do the unlimited powers of the Intelligence\/Security agencies threaten America’s domestic and global\u00a0national interests<\/i>?<\/b>\u00a0The CIA and its political enablers claim the agency’s essentially unlimited powers, partially revealed by Wikileak’s\u00a0Vault 7<\/i>, pose no threat to America’s interests, since they are intended to “defend” American interests.<\/div>\n
This is the rationale presented by neocon CIA allies in both political parties:<\/b>\u00a0the CIA can’t possibly threaten America’s interests because the CIA defines America’s interests.<\/i><\/div>\n
This is the wormhole down which civil liberties and democracy have drained.<\/b>\u00a0It is an extraordinarily defining moment in American history when the director of the FBI publicly declares that there is no such thing as “absolute privacy” in the U.S.<\/div>\n
In effect, privacy is now contingent on the level of interest the Security State has in the private conversation\/data.<\/b>\u00a0If we read the U.S. Constitution, we do not find such contingencies: civil liberties are absolute. Post-1790 presidents have temporarily mooted civil liberties in time of war, and the CIA-led camp of the Deep State has justified its unlimited powers by effectively declared “a state of war is now permanent and enduring.”<\/div>\n
So what’s left to defend if America has become\u00a0the enemy of civil liberties and democracy<\/i>,<\/b>\u00a0i.e. become a totalitarian state ruled by Security Services and their political henchmen and apologists?<\/div>\n
I have long suggested that the tectonic plates of the Deep State are shifting as the ruling consensus has eroded.<\/b>\u00a0Some elements of the Deep State–what I call the progressive wing, which is (ironically to some) anchored in the military services– now view the neocon-CIA (Security State)-Wall Street elements as profoundly dangerous to America’s long-term interests, both domestically and globally.<\/div>\n
Is the Deep State Fracturing into Disunity?<\/a>\u00a0(March 14, 2014)<\/div>\n
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The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare The battle raging in the Deep State isn’t just a bureaucratic battle–it’s a war for the soul, identity and direction of the nation. When do the unlimited powers of the Intelligence\/Security agencies threaten America’s domestic and global\u00a0national interests?\u00a0The CIA and its political enablers claim […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[127,135,199,301,4924,827],"class_list":["post-23207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-cia","tag-deep-state","tag-fbi","tag-oftwominds","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207","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=23207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23208,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207\/revisions\/23208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}