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Patrick Lawrence: Trump vs. the Deep State

Patrick Lawrence: Trump vs. the Deep State

February 17, 2025 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, ScheerPost

This is the first of two commentaries examining what the writer reads as President Trump’s unfolding offensive against the institutions and agencies comprising the deep state — or, if you prefer, the administrative state or the permanent state or the invisible government….

This is how the CIA botched Iraq post-9/11: Bob Gates, careerist sycophancy, and the real history of the Deep State

This is how the CIA botched Iraq post-9/11: Bob Gates, careerist sycophancy, and the real history of the Deep State

February 14, 2016 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

A veteran CIA officer explains to Salon exactly where the agency has gone wrong for decades — and the consequences In a lengthy exchange with Ray McGovern, or when you listen to him speak, a lot comes at you. This…

This is not a democracy: Behind the Deep State that Obama, Hillary or Trump couldn’t control

This is not a democracy: Behind the Deep State that Obama, Hillary or Trump couldn’t control

October 21, 2015 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

Foreign policy never really changes regardless of who holds the White House. This is why exceptionalism always wins There are two ways to consider the White House’s announcement last week that, no, American troops will no longer withdraw from Afghanistan…

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