Is the deep state real? There’s this moment in the ’60s where you really like see how this actually works, where power really is. Johnny Harris, Who are the Deep State? Youtube 30.52, 2024
The decisions were being made here by unelected men who had an immense amount of secret power … Here in Georgetown it had moved beyond anything the designers of the country could have predicted into a shadowy separate part of our government, a deep state that was actively blackmailing the Congress and working to undermine the president of the United States. ibid.
By the 1970s the CIA is this powerful well-funded machine of intelligence that is doing a lot of secret things around the world. ibid.
157,430. Fancy home, having fancy cocktail parties, and kind of running the western world. ibid.