{"id":32685,"date":"2018-03-22T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32685"},"modified":"2018-03-22T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:49:00","slug":"snowden-explains-deep-states-influence-on-presidents-obama-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32685","title":{"rendered":"Snowden Explains Deep State\u2019s Influence on Presidents Obama, Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Snowden Explains Deep State\u2019s Influence on Presidents Obama, Trump<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Famed whistleblower Edward Snowden was recently interviewed by\u00a0Italian publication La Repubblic. The publication noted the 5-year mark of Snowden\u2019s historic act of blowing the whistle on the NSA\u2019s expansive surveillance programs and that \u201cmany thought he would end up very badly, but when he connects via videolink for this interview with la Repubblica, he seems to be doing very well: the frank smile and peaceful face of someone who is easy in his mind.\u201d<\/div>\n
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In an excerpt from the exclusive interview,<\/a>\u00a0Snowden explained how the presidencies of both Obama and Trump are shaped by the Deep State following an illuminating question by journalist Stefania Maurizi.<\/p>\n

Stefania Maurizi:<\/strong>\u00a0We saw that President Obama, who was an outsider to the US military-intelligence complex, initially wanted to reign in the abuses of agencies like the CIA and the NSA, but in the end he did very little. Now we see a confrontation between president Trump and so-called Deep State, which includes the CIA and the NSA. Can a US president govern in opposition to such powerful entities?<\/p>\n

Edward Snowden:<\/strong>\u00a0Obama is certainly an instructive case. This is a president who campaigned on a platform of ending warrantless wiretapping in the United States, he said \u201cthat\u2019s not who we are, that\u2019s not what we do,\u201d\u00a0and once he became the president, he expanded the program.\u00a0 He said he was going to close Guantanamo but he kept it open, he said he was going to limit extrajudicial killings and drone strikes that has been so routine in the Bush years. But Obama went on to authorize vastly more drone strikes than Bush. It became an industry.<\/p>\n

As for this idea that there is a Deep State, now the Deep State is not just the intelligence agencies, it is really a way of referring to the career bureaucracy of government. These are officials who sit in powerful positions, who don\u2019t leave when presidents do, who watch presidents come and go, they influence policy, they influence presidents and say: this is what we have always done, this is what we must do, and if you don\u2019t do this, people will die.<\/p>\n

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Snowden Explains Deep State\u2019s Influence on Presidents Obama, Trump Famed whistleblower Edward Snowden was recently interviewed by\u00a0Italian publication La Repubblic. The publication noted the 5-year mark of Snowden\u2019s historic act of blowing the whistle on the NSA\u2019s expansive surveillance programs and that \u201cmany thought he would end up very badly, but when he connects via […]<\/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":[3306,135,7844,249,18637,577,18640,827,5906,19400,19401],"class_list":["post-32685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-barack-obama","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-edward-snowden","tag-jay-syrmopoulos","tag-nsa","tag-truth-in-media","tag-united-states","tag-us-intelligence","tag-us-military-intelligence-complex","tag-us-presidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685","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=32685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32686,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685\/revisions\/32686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}