{"id":23964,"date":"2017-02-16T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23964"},"modified":"2017-02-16T12:33:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:33:54","slug":"greenwald-empowering-the-deep-state-to-undermine-trump-is-prescription-for-destroying-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/02\/16\/greenwald-empowering-the-deep-state-to-undermine-trump-is-prescription-for-destroying-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwald: Empowering the &#8220;Deep State&#8221; to Undermine Trump is Prescription for Destroying Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Democracy Now<\/em> has the article and video <a href=\"http:\/\/m.democracynow.org\/stories\/17115\" target=\"_blank\">Greenwald: Empowering the &#8220;Deep State&#8221; to Undermine Trump is Prescription for Destroying Democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n        <video width=\"320\" controls style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/hot.dvlabs.com\/democracynow\/360\/dn2017-0216.mp4?start=1902&#038;end=2604\"\/><\/video>\n    <\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>GLENN GREENWALD:<\/strong> The deep state, although there\u2019s no precise or scientific definition, generally refers to the agencies in Washington that are permanent power factions. They stay and exercise power even as presidents who are elected come and go. They typically exercise their power in secret, in the dark, and so they\u2019re barely subject to democratic accountability, if they\u2019re subject to it at all. It\u2019s agencies like the CIA, the NSA and the other intelligence agencies, that are essentially designed to disseminate disinformation and deceit and propaganda, and have a long history of doing not only that, but also have a long history of the world\u2019s worst war crimes, atrocities and death squads. This is who not just people like Bill Kristol, but lots of Democrats are placing their faith in, are trying to empower, are cheering for as they exert power separate and apart from\u2014in fact, in opposition to\u2014the political officials to whom they\u2019re supposed to be subordinate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now has the article and video Greenwald: Empowering the &#8220;Deep State&#8221; to Undermine Trump is Prescription for Destroying Democracy. GLENN GREENWALD: The deep state, although there\u2019s no precise or scientific definition, generally refers to the agencies in Washington that are permanent power factions. They stay and exercise power even as presidents who are elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23968,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964\/revisions\/23968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}