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Old 03-07-2017, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak View Post
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/...ts-deep-state/

Move aside, Bilderbergers and Rothchilds. Soros, you're not scary enough. Shadow Government, you have new competition.........

The GOP has a new Boogeyman to scare the rubes into the voting booth.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you "THE DEEP STATE"!!!!

Fugging lunatics. Why does anyone take these jackasses seriously anymore?
Sorry, that term is "old news". Its use pre-dates Trump and the 2016 election. Here's an example from one of your pal bloggers at HuffPo, describing the deep state as he saw it in 2011:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-t...b_3569316.html

Bill Moyers seemed to be able to find it again in 2014, and was apparently aware of it when he worked as a congressional staffer:

The 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. All these agencies are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council. Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Manhattan, where sensitive proceedings in national security cases are conducted. The final government component (and possibly last in precedence among the formal branches of government established by the Constitution) is a kind of rump Congress consisting of the congressional leadership and some (but not all) of the members of the defense and intelligence committees. The rest of Congress, normally so fractious and partisan, is mostly only intermittently aware of the Deep State and when required usually submits to a few well-chosen words from the State’s emissaries.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/ana...he-deep-state/

So, if it was around as recently as 2014, I guess it's still around now, right?
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