The Deep State Revisited by Paul E. Vallely, MG US Army (Ret)

The “Deep State”

By

Paul E. Vallely, MG US Army (Ret)

Released by the Stand Up America US Foundation and the Citizen’s Commission on National Security.

June 22, 2019

President Trump is fully engaged in draining the corrupted swamp in Washington!

Who is really assisting the President in this monumental task? Certainly not the Democrats and it appears that most of the Rinos and other Republicans are not as well. We the people must support the President in this brave action.

In the United States the term “deep state” is often used to describe influential decision-making bodies believed to be within the government who are relatively permanent and whose policies and long-term plans are unaffected by changing administrations. The term is typically used in a critical sense to refer to the lack of influence popular democracy has on these institutions and the decisions they make as a shadow government. The term was originally coined in a somewhat pejorative sense to refer to a similar relatively invisible state apparatus in Turkey and post-Soviet Russia. When I was on active duty and three tours in DC, I called  “The Deep State” the Bureaucracy. The bureaucracy has metastasized into a four-level deep state!

Anyone who has spent time on Capitol Hill will get the feeling when watching debates in the House or Senate chambers that he or she is seeing a kind of marionette theater, with members of Congress reading carefully vetted talking points about prefabricated issues.  While the public is now aware of the disproportionate influence of powerful corporations over Washington,  few fully appreciate that the United States has in the last several decades gradually undergone a process first identified by Aristotle. This process, which the journalist Lawrence Peter Garrett described in the 1930s as a “revolution within the form,” was later championed by Machiavelli.  Our venerable institutions of government have outwardly remained the same, but they have grown more and more resistant to the popular will as they have become hardwired into a corporate and private influence network with almost unlimited cash to enforce its will.

Even as commentators decry a broken Congress that cannot marshal the money to secure our borders, the will, or the competence to repair our roads and bridges, heal our war veterans, or even roll out a health care website seems beyond their reach.  There is always enough money and will, and maybe just enough competence, to overthrow foreign governments, and to  fight the longest wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan in U.S. history.

These paradoxes, both within the government and within the ostensibly private economy, are related. They are symptoms of a shadow government ruling the  United States pays little heed to the plain words of the Constitution. Its governing philosophy profoundly influences foreign and national security policy and such domestic matters as spending priorities, trade, investment, income inequality, privatization of government services, media presentation of news, and the whole meaning and worth of citizens’ participation in their government. We have come to call this shadow government the Deep State.  We use the term to mean a hybrid association of key elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that are effectively able to govern the United States with only limited reference to the consent of the governed as normally expressed through elections.

The Deep State is the big story of our time. It is the red thread that runs through the war on terrorism and the militarization of our foreign policy, the CIA and DOJ. But these isolated cases have not provided a framework for understanding the extent of the shadow government, how it arose, the interactions of its various parts, and the extent to which it influences and controls the leaders whom we think we choose in elections.

My reflection on our “shadow of government” has come only after my retirement in 1993 and my departure from Washington, D.C. proper and the institutions located there to the State of Montana. Unlike the clear majority of Capitol Hill strivers who leave the place for greener pastures, I had no desire to join a lobbying shop, trade association, or think tank. But I did have a need to put the events I had witnessed in perspective, and I came to realize that the nation’s capital, where I lived and worked for many years, has its own peculiar ecology.

To look upon Washington once again with fresh eyes, I sometimes feel as Darwin must have when he first set foot on the Galapagos Islands. From the Pentagon to K Street, and from the contractor cube farms in Crystal City to the public policy foundations along Massachusetts Avenue, the terrain and its people are exotic and well worth examining in a rational and common-sense manner. The United States has its capital there, and so does our Deep State. To describe them in the language of physics, they coexist in the same way it is possible for two subatomic particles to coexist in an entangled quantum state. The characteristics of each particle, or each governmental structure, cannot fully be described independently; instead, we must find a way to describe the system. The Deep State also extends to many States and local governments.,

If you don’t know what the Deep State is then, perhaps you are part of it. We know, of course, that the liberal Deep State that lurks within our government is and always has been hellbent on destroying President Trump and preventing him from making America great again. And we know for certain that Deep State weasels fabricated the whole Russia HOAX and myth. But the raids on Michael Cohen’s Manhattan office and hotel room confirm one of my long-held suspicions: The Democratic Deep State has sunk to an even more insidious level and is now targeting a president in the sneakiest and most deceitful way possible. Roger Stone’s arrest using early morning Gestapo tactics by the FBI is deplorable.

Let us start with Robert Mueller ( the rogue special counsel)  who completed his investigation with No Collusion and Obstruction of Justice. As Trump has said, the whole thing was a big witch hunt, and that makes Mueller the lead witch hunter and his minions in the FBI and Department of Justice. Well, Mueller who   is a registered Republican and was first appointed head of the FBI by President George W. Bush, who is also a Republican. (I’m telling you, this conspiracy goes DEEP!). The raid on Trump’s lawyer began with a referral from the Mueller investigation to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.  That stinks to high heaven of Deep State involvement.

We will terminate and destroy the Deep State. WE must!  America’s future as a secure Nation that is of the people, for the people and by the people and not governed by partisan political hacks!

 MG Paul Vallely is Chairman of Stand Up America US.

Web Site: www.standupamericaus.org

Contact: standupamericausa1@gmail.com

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