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  • >> WELCOME.

  • IF YOU'VE READ THE ESPIONAGE

  • NOVELS OF JOHN LE CARRÉ, YOU

  • KNOW THAT NO OTHER WRITER TODAY

  • HAS SO BRILLIANTLY EVOKED THE

  • SUBTERRANEAN WORKINGS OF

  • GOVERNMENT, PERHAPS BECAUSE HE

  • HIMSELF WAS ONCE A BRITISH SPY.

  • LE CARRÉ HAS A NAME FOR THAT

  • INVISIBLE LABYRINTH OF POWER.

  • HE CALLS IT THE "DEEP STATE."

  • AND NOW AN AMERICAN, YOU'RE

  • ABOUT TO MEET IN THIS BROADCAST

  • HAS SEIZED ON THAT CONCEPT TO

  • DESCRIBE THE FORCES HE SAYS ARE

  • CONTROLLING OUR GOVERNMENT, NO

  • MATTER THE PARTY IN POWER.

  • BUT MIKE LOFGREN'S NO

  • INTELLIGENCE AGENT, ALTHOUGH HE

  • HAD A TOP SECRET SECURITY

  • CLEARANCE.

  • HE'S A NUMBERS MAN, A

  • CONGRESSIONAL STAFF MEMBER FOR

  • 28 YEARS WITH THE POWERFUL HOUSE

  • AND SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEES.

  • OVER THE YEARS, AS HE CRUNCHED

  • THOSE NUMBERS, HE REALIZED THEY

  • DIDN'T ADD UP.

  • INSTEAD, THEY LED HIM TO

  • AMERICA'S OWN DEEP STATE, WHERE

  • ELECTED AND UNELECTED FIGURES

  • COLLUDE TO PROTECT AND SERVE

  • POWERFUL VESTED INTERESTS.

  • MIKE LOFGREN WAS SO DISGUSTED,

  • HE NOT ONLY LEFT CAPITOL HILL,

  • HE LEFT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND

  • WROTE THIS BOOK, "THE PARTY IS

  • OVER: HOW REPUBLICANS WENT

  • CRAZY, DEMOCRATS BECAME USELESS

  • AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GOT

  • SHAFTED."

  • NOW, AT OUR REQUEST, AND

  • EXCLUSIVELY FOR BILLMOYERS.COM,

  • HE HAS WRITTEN "ANATOMY OF THE

  • DEEP STATE."

  • YOU'LL WANT TO READ IT AS SOON

  • AS WE FINISH THIS CONVERSATION.

  • MIKE LOFGREN, WELCOME.

  • >> GOOD TO BE HERE AGAIN, BILL.

  • >> THIS IS A DIFFICULT SUBJECT

  • TO TALK ABOUT.

  • IT WOULD BE EASIER IF IT WERE A

  • CONSPIRACY YOU WERE DESCRIBING,

  • BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE, IS IT?

  • >> NO.

  • I'M NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORIST.

  • THIS IS NOT SOME CABAL

  • THAT WAS HATCHED IN THE DARK OF

  • NIGHT.

  • THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HIDES IN

  • PLAIN SIGHT.

  • IT'S SOMETHING WE KNOW ABOUT,

  • BUT WE CAN'T CONNECT THE DOTS,

  • OR MOST PEOPLE DON'T CONNECT THE

  • DOTS.

  • IT'S KIND OF A NATURAL EVOLUTION

  • WHEN SO MUCH MONEY AND POLITICAL

  • CONTROL IS AT STAKE IN THE MOST

  • POWERFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

  • THIS HAS EVOLVED OVER TIME.

  • >> AND YOU CALL IT THE REAL

  • POWER IN THE COUNTRY.

  • >> CORRECT.

  • IT IS A HYBRID OF CORPORATE

  • AMERICA AND THE NATIONAL

  • SECURITY STATE.

  • EVERYONE KNOWS

  • WHAT THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL

  • COMPLEX IS, SINCE EISENHOWER

  • TALKED ABOUT IT IN HIS FAREWELL

  • ADDRESS.

  • >> WE MUST GUARD AGAINST THE

  • ACQUISITION OF UNWARRANTED

  • INFLUENCE WHETHER SOUGHT OR

  • UNSOUGHT BY THE

  • MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

  • THE POTENTIAL FOR THE DISASTROUS

  • RISE OF MISPLACED POWER EXISTS

  • AND WILL PERSIST.

  • WE MUST NEVER LET THE WEIGHT OF

  • THIS COMBINATION ENDANGER OUR

  • LIBERTIES OR DEMOCRATIC

  • PROCESSES.

  • >> EVERYONE KNOWS WALL STREET

  • AND ITS DEPREDATIONS.

  • EVERYONE KNOWS HOW CORPORATE

  • AMERICA ACTS.

  • THEY'RE BOTH ABOUT THE SAME

  • THING.

  • THEY'RE BOTH ABOUT MONEY,

  • SUCKING AS MUCH MONEY OUT OF THE

  • COUNTRY AS THEY CAN.

  • AND THEY'RE ABOUT CONTROL,

  • CORPORATE CONTROL AND POLITICAL

  • CONTROL.

  • >> YOU SAID THIS, IN YOUR

  • JUDGMENT, IS THE BIG STORY OF

  • OUR TIME.

  • >> IT IS THE BIG STORY OF OUR

  • TIME.

  • IT IS, I WOULD SAY, THE RED

  • THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE

  • HISTORY OF THE LAST THREE

  • DECADES.

  • IT'S HOW WE HAD DEREGULATION,

  • FINANCIALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY,

  • THE WALL STREET BUST, THE

  • EROSION OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES,

  • AND PERPETUAL WAR.

  • >> YOU WRITE THAT THE "SECRET

  • AND UNACCOUNTABLE DEEP STATE

  • FLOATS FREELY ABOVE THE GRIDLOCK

  • BETWEEN BOTH ENDS OF

  • PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE IS THE

  • PARADOX OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

  • IN THE 21st CENTURY."

  • >> WELL, THAT'S JUST THE THING.

  • THE COMMON NARRATIVE OF THE LAST

  • FIVE YEARS, AND ON A SUPERFICIAL

  • LEVEL IT'S RIGHT, IS THAT

  • GOVERNMENT IS BROKEN.

  • IT'S DYSFUNCTIONAL.

  • IT'S GRIDLOCKED.

  • WELL, THAT'S TRUE.

  • AND THAT IS THE VISIBLE

  • GOVERNMENT, THE CONSTITUTIONAL

  • GOVERNMENT WE LEARN ABOUT IN

  • CIVICS 101.

  • AND IT IS GRIDLOCKED.

  • BUT SOMEHOW, OBAMA CAN GO INTO

  • LIBYA.

  • HE CAN ASSASSINATE U.S.

  • CITIZENS.

  • HE CAN COLLECT ALL OUR PHONE

  • RECORDS WITHOUT A BUY OR A LEAVE

  • FROM ANYONE.

  • HE EVEINWNET

  • CARRYING A PRESIDENT OF A

  • SOVEREIGN COUNTRY WITHOUT ASKING

  • ANYONE'S PERMISSION.

  • AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CONNECT THE

  • TWO, THE FAILURE OF OUR VISIBLE

  • CONSTUTIONAL STATE AND THIS

  • OTHER GOVERNMENT THAT OPERATES

  • ACCORDING TO NO CONSTITUTIONAL

  • RULES OR ANY CONSTRAINT BY THE

  • GOVERNED.

  • >> YOU GO ON TO SAY, THOUGH,

  • THAT IT'S NOT JUST THE EXECUTIVE

  • BRANCH THAT IS THE HEART OF

  • THIS, THAT IT'S JUST ONE OF THE

  • SEVERAL CONSTITUENCIES THAT MAKE

  • UP WHAT YOU CALL THE DEEP STATE.

  • >> WELL, IT'S ALL THE NATIONAL

  • SECURITY FUNCTIONS OF THE

  • GOVERNMENT.

  • IT'S THE PENTAGON.

  • IT'S HOMELAND SECURITY.

  • IT'S THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

  • IT'S ALSO TREASURY BECAUSE THEY

  • HAVE A KIND OF SYMBIOTIC

  • RELATIONSHIP WITH WALL STREET.

  • >> FOR ONE THING, THEY CONTROL

  • THE FLOW OF MONEY.

  • >> ABSOLUTELY.

  • THAT'S WHY THERE'S SUCH A FLOW

  • NOT ONLY OF MONEY, BUT OF

  • PERSONNEL BETWEEN WALL STREET

  • AND THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

  • THERE'S OTHER ASPECTS OF

  • GOVERNMENT.

  • THERE'S A PORTION OF THE

  • JUDICIARY -- A SMALL PORTION OF

  • THE JUDICIARY, THE SO-CALLED

  • FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

  • SURVEILLANCE COURTS.

  • MOST OF CONGRESS DOESN'T EVEN

  • KNOW HOW THEY OPERATE.

  • >> TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE

  • NEXUS, THE CONNECTION, BETWEEN

  • THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE AND

  • WALL STREET.

  • BECAUSE THIS IS A THEME THAT

  • RUNS THROUGH YOUR ESSAY.

  • >> DO YOU KNOW THAT ABOUT

  • 30 BLOCKS NORTH OF HERE THERE IS

  • A RESTAURANT THAT WILL SELL YOU

  • A TRUFFLE FOR $95,000.

  • ALSO IN NEW YORK, CHRISTIE'S

  • SOLD AT AUCTION A PAINTING BY

  • FRANCIS BACON FOR $142 MILLION.

  • NOW A PARALLEL SITUATION WITH

  • THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE.

  • THE NSA SPENT $1.7 BILLION TO

  • BUILD A FACILITY IN UTAH THAT

  • WILL COLLECT ONE YOTTABYTE OF

  • INFORMATION.

  • THAT'S AS MUCH INFORMATION AS

  • HAS EVER BEEN WRITTEN IN THE

  • HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

  • IT COSTS $400 BY THE TIME THE

  • PENTAGON FINISHES PAYING

  • CONTRACTORS TO HAUL ONE GALLON

  • OF GASOLINE INTO AFGHANISTAN.

  • THAT'S A REAL EXTRAVAGANT AMOUNT

  • OF MONEY.

  • IN BOTH CASES OF THE NATIONAL

  • SECURITY STATE AND THE CORPORATE

  • STATE, THEY ARE SUCKING MONEY

  • OUT OF THE ECONOMY.

  • AS OUR INFRASTRUCTURE COLLAPSES,

  • WE HAVE A TINKER TOY POWER GRID

  • THAT GOES OUT EVERY TIME THERE'S

  • INCLEMENT WEATHER.

  • TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE

  • ON FOOD STAM

  • WE INCARCERATE MORE PEOPLE THAN

  • CHINA, AN AUTHORITARIAN STATE

  • WITH FOUR TIMES OUR POPULATION.

  • DOES ANYONE SEE THE DISPARITY

  • BETWEEN THIS EXTRAVAGANCE FOR

  • THE DEEP STATE AND THE PENURY

  • THAT IS BEING FORCED ON THE REST

  • OF THE COUNTRY?

  • THAT ISN'T A NATURAL EVOLUTION.

  • SOMETHING MADE IT HAPPEN.

  • WE'RE HAVING A SITUATION WHERE

  • THE DEEP STATE IS ESSENTIALLY

  • OUT OF CONTROL, IT'S

  • UNCONSTRAINED.

  • SINCE 9/11 WE HAVE BUILT THE

  • EQUIVALENT OF THREE PENTAGONS

  • AROUND THE DC METROPOLITAN AREA,

  • HOLDING DEFENSE CONTRACTORS,

  • INTELLIGENCE CONTRACTORS, AND

  • GOVERNMENT CIVILIANS INVOLVED IN

  • THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

  • THERE ARE OVER

  • 400,000 CONTRACTORS, PRIVATE

  • CITIZENS, WHO HAVE TOP-SECRET

  • SECURITY CLEARANCES.

  • >> AND THEY ARE HEART AND SOUL

  • OF THE DEEP STATE, AS YOU

  • DESCRIBE IT.

  • >> ABSOLUTELY.

  • >> THEY'RE BEING PRIVATIZED.

  • WHICH MEANS THE POWER SHIFTS

  • FROM ACCOUNTABLE OFFICIALS TO

  • UNACCOUNTABLE CONTRACTORS.

  • >> ABOUT 70 PERCENT OF THE

  • INTELLIGENCE BUDGET GOES TO

  • CONTRACTS.

  • >> HOW NEW IS THIS?

  • I MEAN, BACK IN 2010, THE

  • "WASHINGTON POST" PUBLISHED A

  • STUNNING INVESTIGATION OF WHAT

  • THE EDITORS CALLED "TOP-SECRET

  • AMERICA."

  • I MEAN, WE HAVE KNOWN

  • ABOUT THIS, HAVE WE NOT?

  • >> YES, WE KNOW ABOUT THIS, BUT

  • THE INTELLIGENCE FUNCTIONS OF

  • THE GOVERNMENT ARE TOO IMPORTANT

  • TO OUTSOURCE IN THE MANNER WE

  • HAVE.

  • IT'S SOMETHING WHERE ABSOLUTE

  • DISCRETION IS NEEDED AND

  • ABSOLUTE TRUST THAT THEY ARE NOT

  • VIOLATING CIVIL LIBERTIES.

  • AND TO PUT THIS KIND OF A

  • BURDEN, IF YOU WILL, ON

  • PRIVATE-CONTRACT EMPLOYEES IS, I

  • THINK, BECOME A GREAT

  • DISSERVICE.

  • >> YOU SAY THAT YOU CAME TO

  • QUESTION THIS.

  • IT TOOK YOU A WHILE.

  • IT WAS A GRADUAL ENLIGHTENMENT

  • THAT TOOK PLACE.

  • YOU WERE DEALING WITH BIG

  • NUMBERS AND PARTICULAR DETAILS

  • IN THE BUDGETS THAT ALL OF THESE

  • AGENCIES WERE SENDING TO YOU

  • WHEN YOU WERE ON CAPITOL HILL,

  • RIGHT?

  • YOU WERE SEEING THE NUMBERS?

  • >> ABSOLUTELY.

  • >> AND YOU --

  • WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THE

  • NUMBERS?

  • >> AT THE END OF 2001 IS -- WE

  • APPROPRIATED A LOT OF MONEY AND

  • IT DIDN'T SEEM TO BE GOING TO

  • AFGHANISTAN, THE APPROXIMATE

  • SOURCE OF THE 9/11 ATTACKS.

  • IT SEEMED TO BE GOING TO THE

  • IULEG.

  • AND I SAID, "WHAT'S GOING ON

  • HERE?

  • SADDAM HUSSEIN DIDN'T BRING DOWN

  • THE TWIN TOWERS."

  • SO, THE LITTLE LIGHT WENT ON.

  • AND I BEGAN TO SORT OF

  • DISENCHANT MYSELF FROM THE

  • NORMAL GROUP THINK THAT TENDS TO

  • TAKE OVER IN ANY ORGANIZATION.

  • >> GROUP THINK?

  • AT SOME POINT IN YOUR ESSAY, YOU

  • TALK ABOUT HOW GROUPTHINK DRIVES

  • THE DEEP STATE.

  • >> IT ABSOLUTELY DOES, JUST AS

  • IT TENDS TO DRIVE ANY

  • BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATION.

  • >> WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY

  • GROUPTHINK?

  • >> WELL, THE PSYCHOLOGIST IRVING

  • JANIS CALLED IT GROUPTHINK.

  • IT'S A KIND OF ASSIMILATION OF

  • THE VIEWS OF YOUR SUPERIORS AND

  • YOUR PEERS.

  • IT'S BECOMING A YES MAN.

  • AND IN MANY RESPECTS, IT'S AN

  • UNCONSCIOUS THING.

  • >> YEAH, REMEMBER WHAT UPTON

  • SINCLAIR ONCE SAID "IT'S

  • DIFFICULT TO GET A MAN TO

  • UNDERSTAND SOMETHING WHEN HIS

  • SALARY DEPENDS ON HIM NOT

  • UNDERSTANDING IT."

  • >> THAT IS CERTAINLY PART OF IT.

  • >> YOU DESCRIBE WASHINGTON AS

  • CLEARLY AND OBVIOUSLY THE

  • HEADQUARTERS OF THE DEEP STATE.

  • BUT TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE

  • OTHERS WHO ARE IN THE GAME.

  • >> WALL STREET IS, PERHAPS, THE

  • ULTIMATE BACKSTOP TO THE WHOLE

  • OPERATION.

  • BECAUSE THEY GENERATE SO MUCH

  • MONEY THAT THEY CAN PRIDE

  • SECOND CAREERS FOR A LOT OF THE

  • GOVERNMENT OPERATIVES.

  • THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE MORE MONEY

  • THAN THEY EVER DREAMED THEY

  • WOULD ON WALL STREET.

  • AND I THINK A GOOD EXAMPLE OF

  • THAT IS THE MOST CELEBRATED

  • SOLDIER OF THE LAST DECADE,

  • DAVID PETRAEUS.

  • WHAT DID HE DO WHEN HE RETIRED?

  • HE WENT TO KOHLBERG KRAVIS

  • ROBERTS, A WALL STREET BUYOUT

  • FIRM WITH $90 BILLION IN ASSETS

  • UNDER MANAGEMENT.

  • >> YOU DESCRIBE HIM AS A KIND OF

  • AVATAR OF THE DEEP STATE.

  • >> HE IS, IN A WAY.

  • BECAUSE HE NOW REPRESENTS BOTH

  • ENDS OF IT.

  • WE SEE NOW OUR PRESENT-DAY

  • CINCINNATUS DID NOT PICK UP THE

  • PLOW WHEN HE LAY DOWN THE SWORD.

  • >> CINCINNATUS WAS THE ROMAN WHO

  • LEFT HIS FARM TO BECOME A

  • GENERAL IN THE WAR.

  • WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER, HE WENT

  • BACK TO BE A FARMER.

  • THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN TODAY.

  • >> NO, IT DOESN'T.

  • THE VAST MAJORITY OF GENERALS

  • SEEM TO END UP ON THE BOARDS OF

  • DEFENSE CONTRACTORS.

  • >> TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT

  • YOU CALL THIS STRANGE

  • RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SILICON

  • VALLEY AND THE GOVERNMENT, AND

  • HOW IT FITS INTO THE DEEP STATE.

  • >> WELL, THE NATIONAL SECURITY

  • AGENCY COULD NOT DO WHAT IT

  • DOES, THE CIA COULD DA

  • IT DOES, WITHOUT SILICON VALLEY.

  • NOW, SILICON VALLEY, UNLIKE THE

  • DEFENSE CONTRACTORS, MOSTLY

  • SELLS TO PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS AND

  • TO COMPANIES.

  • IT'S NOT A BIG GOVERNMENT

  • VENDOR.

  • HOWEVER, ITS SERVICES ARE

  • NECESSARY.

  • AND DE FACTO, THEY HAVE BECOME A

  • PART OF THE NSA'S OPERATIONS.

  • I'M SURE THE CEO'S OF SOME OF

  • THESE COMPANIES TRY TO OBSCURE

  • THE FACT THAT THIS HAS MOSTLY

  • BEEN VOLUNTARY FOR MANY YEARS.

  • >> YOU MEAN THE SURVEILLANCE?

  • >> THE SURVEILLANCE.

  • >> THE GATHERING OF INFORMATION

  • OF UNKNOWING CITIZENS.

  • >> ABSOLUTELY.

  • >> FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES,

  • THOUGH.

  • >> PRECISELY.

  • THEY'VE DONE IT

  • THEMSELVES AND THEY'VE ASSISTED

  • THE NSA THROUGH A FISA COURT

  • ORDER.

  • >> FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE --

  • >> FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

  • SURVEILLANCE ACT.

  • SO, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR

  • QUITE A WHILE.

  • YET NOW, LIKE INSPECTOR RENAULT,

  • THEY ARE "SHOCKED, SHOCKED" TO

  • FIND OUT.

  • BUT I THINK THEIR MAIN SHOCK IS

  • THAT THEY'RE NOW STARTING TO

  • LOSE MARKET SHARE IN FOREIGN

  • COUNTRIES.

  • >> THESE MOGULS, AS YOU CALL

  • THEM, PASS THEMSELVES OFF AS

  • LIBERTARIANS.

  • >> OH, THEY DO.

  • THEY MAKE A BIG PRETENSE ABOUT

  • BEING LIBERTARIANS AND BELIEVING

  • IN THE RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM AND

  • SO FORTH.

  • BUT THEY'VBEENVERYIT A

  • INTRUSIVE AS THE NSA HAS BEEN,

  • IN TERMS OF COLLECTING YOUR DATA

  • FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES, RATHER

  • THAN SO-CALLED NATIONAL SECURITY

  • PURPOSES.

  • BUT THEY'RE IN IT JUST AS

  • HEAVILY AS THE NSA IS.

  • AND THEY SOMEHOW MANAGE TO GET

  • THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS

  • RIGGED SO THAT YOU ARE

  • THEORETICALLY SUBJECT TO A FINE

  • OF UP TO $500,000 FOR JAIL

  • BREAKING YOUR PHONE.

  • >> WHICH MEANS?

  • >> WHICH MEANS IF YOU DON'T LIKE

  • THE CARRIER ON YOUR PHONE THAT

  • THE MANUFACTURER DICTATES YOU

  • SHALL HAVE AND YOU CHANGE IT

  • WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION, YOU DON'T

  • HAVE THE RIGHT TO SOMETHING YOU

  • BOUGHT.

  • >> COULD THIS SYMBIOTIC AND

  • ACTUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

  • SILICON VALLEY AND THE

  • GOVERNMENT REFLECTING THE DEEP

  • STATE, EXPLAIN THE INDULGENCE

  • WASHINGTON HAS SHOWN SILICON

  • VALLEY ON MATTERS OF

  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY?

  • >> ABSOLUTELY.

  • PEOPLE NO LONGER NECESSARILY OWN

  • THEIR PROPERTY THAT THEY BUY IF

  • THEY'RE BUYING IT FROM SILICON

  • VALLEY.

  • THEY SIMPLY HAVE A KIND OF LEASE

  • ON IT.

  • >> IF, AS YOU WRITE, THE

  • IDEOLOGY OF THE DEEP STATE IS

  • NOT DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, NOT

  • LEFTRI WHAT IS IT?

  • >> IT'S AN IDEOLOGY.

  • I JUST DON'T THINK WE'VE NAMED

  • IT.

  • IT'S A KIND OF CORPORATISM.

  • NOW, THE ACTORS IN THIS DRAMA

  • TEND TO STEER CLEAR OF SOCIAL

  • ISSUES.

  • THEY PRETEND TO BE MERRILY

  • NEUTRAL SERVANTS OF THE STATE,

  • GIVING THE BEST ADVICE POSSIBLE

  • ON NATIONAL SECURITY OR

  • FINANCIAL MATTERS.

  • BUT THEY HOLD A VERY DEEP

  • IDEOLOGY OF THE WASHINGTON

  • CONSENSUS AT HOME, WHICH IS

  • DEREGULATION, OUTSOURCING,

  • DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION AND

  • FINANCIALIZATION.

  • AND THEY BELIEVE IN AMERICAN

  • EXCEPTIONALISM ABROAD, WHICH IS

  • BOOTS ON THE GROUND EVERYWHERE,

  • IT'S OUR RIGHT TO MEDDLE

  • EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

  • AND THE RESULT OF THAT IS

  • PERPETUAL WAR.

  • >> AND YOU SAY IT IS SHADOWY AND

  • MORE ILL-DEFINED.

  • MORE ILL-DEFINED THAN WHAT?

  • >> IT'S MORE ILL-DEFINED THAN

  • SIMPLY SAYING WALL STREET OR

  • SAYING THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL

  • COMPLEX, OR SAYING SILICON

  • VALLEY, OR THE CORPORATIONS.

  • IT'S A SYMBIOSIS OF ALL OF THE

  • ABOVE.

  • >> HERE'S YOUR SUMMING-UP

  • QUOTE -- "AS LONG AS

  • APPROPRIATIONS BILLS GET PASSED

  • ON TIME, PROMOTION LISTS GET

  • CONFIRMED, BLACK OR SECRET

  • BUDGETS GET RUBBER STAMPED,

  • SPECIAL TAX SUBSIDIES FOR

  • CERTAIN CORPORATIONS ARE

  • APPROVED WITHOUT CONTROVERSY, AS

  • LONG AS TOO MANY AWKWARD

  • QUESTIONS ARE NOT ASKED, THE

  • GEARS OF THE HYBRID STATE WILL

  • MESH NOISELESSLY."

  • IS THAT THE IDEOLOGY?

  • >> THAT IS A GOVERNMENT WITHIN A

  • GOVERNMENT THAT OPERATES OFF THE

  • VISIBLE GOVERNMENT AND OPERATES

  • OFF THE TAXPAYERS.

  • BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE

  • CONSTRAINED IN A CONSTITUTIONAL

  • SENSE BY THE GOVERNMENT.

  • >> IS THERE A SOLUTION TO THE

  • WAY THE SYSTEM WORKS NOW?

  • >> I THINK WE'RE STARTING TO SEE

  • SOME DISCORD IN THE IDEOLOGY OF

  • THE FACTIONS THAT MAKE UP THE

  • DEEP STATE.

  • WE'RE SEEING SILICON VALLEY JUMP

  • SHIP.

  • THEY ARE STARTING TO PROTEST

  • AGAINST THE NSA.

  • WE'RE SEEING THE TEA PARTY

  • BAILING OUT AGAINST THE DEEP

  • STATE.

  • THEY MAY BE WRONG ON MANY

  • ECONOMIC ISSUES.

  • BUT I DON'T THINK THEY'RE

  • NECESSARILY WRONG ON THIS ONE.

  • >> SO THE PUBLIC COULD BE

  • GROWING WISE?

  • >> I THINK THEY ARE.

  • THERE'S A MUCH MORE VIVID DEBATE

  • NG ON IN THE COUNTRY ABOUT

  • SURVEILLANCE EVER SINCE THE

  • REVELATIONS BY EDWARD SNOWDEN.

  • >> MIKE LOFGREN, THANK YOU VERY

  • MUCH FOR BEING WITH ME.

  • >> IT'S GOOD TO BE

>> WELCOME.

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