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The Deep State:
The unelected “fourth branch”
of the U.S. government.
“A BODY OF PEOPLE, TYPICALLY influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy.”
—Oxford English Dictionary [*]
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“A HYBRID ASSOCIATION of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process.”
—Mike Lofgren, former Republican U.S. congressional aide, 2014 [*]
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“THE DEEP STATE DRAWS power from the national security and intelligence communities, a realm where secrecy is a source of power.”
—Jason Royce Lindsey, The Concealment of the State, 2013 [*]
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“THE ENTRENCHED BUREAUCRACY composed of political appointees and career government employees engaged in coordinated attempts to undermine the authority and legitimacy of the democratically elected President of the United States. Civil servants opposed to the President’s political beliefs and agenda, pulling strings in the background to obstruct the executive branch through regulation, procedural red tape, weaponized national intelligence actions, a complicit media, and the judicial overreach of like-minded allies in federal courts. Unelected officials able to thwart the will of the voters and effectively impose their values and objectives upon the American people. Sedition and treason. A ‘soft’ coup.”
—Vikki Kestell, Deep State Stealth
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