The Structure Of The Deep State

Prompted by comments from Titan 28 and Joe, I offer a sort of organization chart of the Deep State, as well as some interesting tweets from Greg Rubini which, effectively, illustrate how that organization chart expands beyond the halls of government. In particular, what's important to take away from this is the web of interlocking supervision and control that we see, a web that any president will be hard pressed to handle.

Here's just one example. The FBI is a key part of the Deep State. It's one of the member agencies of the Intelligence Community, and the lead counterintelligence (CI) agency. As such, it is supervised by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who is a cabinet level appointee who reports to the President. At the same time, the FBI is an agency of the Department of Justice, and the FBI Director reports not just to the DNI but to the Deputy AG. As such, the FBI is the federal government's lead law enforcement agency--a role which is fully compatible with its CI role, despite what you may hear to the contrary.

Does this give some idea of the complex web I referred to? The AG, for example, may not be a formal member of the IC, but the crucial role of the FBI in CI means that the DNI cannot afford to ignore DoJ. After all, the FBI may end up investigating other IC members and and answering in that regard to the AG!

And that's just one partial example.

So, who are members of the IC, and therefore at the center of the Deep State? Wikipedia can provide us with a handy list:

United States[edit]

Main article: United States Intelligence Community

• Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Independent agencies
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• United States Department of Defense
  • Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
  • National Security Agency (NSA)
  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
  • National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
  • Sixteenth Air Force (16th AF)
  • Military Intelligence Corps (MI)
  • Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA)
  • Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
• United States Department of Energy
  • Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)
• United States Department of Homeland Security
  • Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)
  • Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI)
• United States Department of Justice
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  • Office of National Security Intelligence (ONSI)
• United States Department of State
  • Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)
• United States Department of the Treasury
  • Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)

Notice that all these agencies fall under a Department--all except the CIA, which is an "independent agency". What's that, you ask? If you follow the link, above, you'll find that Wikipedia has an answer for that, too:

Independent agencies of the United States federal government are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President.^[1] In a narrower sense, the term may also be used to describe agencies that, while constitutionally managed by the executive branch, are independent of presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.

Established through separate statutes passed by the Congress, each respective statutory grant of authority defines the goals the agency must work towards, as well as what substantive areas, if any, over which it may have the power of rulemaking. These agency rules (or regulations), when in force, have the power of federal law.

Once again, if you followed the link above, you'd get a list of these agencies, including such familiar entities beyond the IC and the CIA as: EPA, FTC, GSA, NASA, and on, and on, and on. How does all this fit within our constitutional order? Please, don't ask!

Imagine any president trying to ride herd over that alphabet soup of agencies, especially when their career bureaucrats are recalcitrant, or outright members of a Resistance!

And then there's the National Security Council. Check that out, to see who belongs, who attends regularly, etc. Some IC agency heads belong, others have department heads who attend and, presumably represent their interests--for example, the AG attends, so you can bet that the FBI Director wants to have some input into deliberations through the AG.

As if that weren't complicated enough, all these agencies undergo "oversight" by House and Senate committees--which means confirmations, budgets, priorities, etc. Can you say divided loyalties?

So this is what Trump is dealing with--or trying to. And it doesn't stop there. Check out this twitter feed by Greg Rubini. The Deep State doesn't stop where the boundaries of government agencies stop, because there's a revolving door of political appointees, whose careers in government span administrations.

By the way:

Christopher Steele is a good friend of Michael Hayden,
fmr CIA & NSA Director (NeverTrumper).

Hayden met Steele in London, in 2008.
Hayden & Brennan are friends.

Connect the Dots...

2. Hayden is a VERY important player in this WAR against Trump.
(Spy Operations, Impeachment Hoax)

VERY important.

And he stays behind the scenes...

3. This is what John Brennan thinks of Michael Hayden:

(from the RabidDoggg mouth):

4. if you want to understand how important Hayden is,
consider this:

Michael Hayden was NSA Director from March 1999 to April 2005,
during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations,
and CIA Director from May 2006 to February 2009. 

5. That is 10 years at the Top Levels of the US Intelligence Agencies. 

6. Hayden is the guy who DESTROYED the NSA, and transformed 
the NSA into a MONSTER.

Ask the Hero - and fmr NSA Technical Director William Binney...
correct, Dr. Dave Janda? @docdhj

7. Michael Hayden is the guy who started the ILLEGAL NSA spying 
on American citizens.

The guy who used the NSA against us.

8. Now re-read the whole Thread, and tell me:

Between Hayden and Brennan, who do you think is calling the shots?

9. btw: the CNN interview of the screenshots at #1 and #8 was on 
Aug 9, 2016

What was going on, at that time? 

10, I would like to tell Devin Nunes @DevinNunes, to Sen. Lindsay 
Graham @LindseyGrahamSC, and to AG Willam Barr to keep an 
eye on Hayden, not just on Brennan & Comey, and also on 
Michael Chertoff and on Michael Morell (frm CIA Deputy Director)

Thank you

11. Michael Chertoff:

Former Secretary of Homeland Security;
Former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, DOJ

Michael Hayden works for Chertoff

Dems 55, GOPers 69

Nope, not a college basketball score. Per today's WSJ, those are the percentages of respondents to a recent Rasmussen poll who agreed with the following statement:

It is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home.

While not identified as such by the pollster, those words were spoken by President Donald J. Trump. 55 per cent of identified Democrats can agree with Trump on a major and--if one were to judge from the MSM and Congressional resolutions--"controversial" component of his foreign policy. One which he has held to from the the early days of his campaign. In reality, judging from the polling results, this is not a controversial position at all. It reflects Mainstream American opinion.

Questions: Could results like this signify, as commenter Cassander has speculated, that a major political realignment in America could be on the horizon? How long can the DC political Establishment--Dem and GOP alike--continue to buck the growing popular consensus? How long can they kowtow to the Deep State status quo, without risking serious backlash? To what other issues does this divide extend? Trump appears to be the only candidate who has identified some of these divides in the American political landscape and has the wit to take advantage of them to forge a new and, seemingly, enduring coalition--again, judging from GOP respondents, Trump is wildly popular. Does the Establishment really dare impeach?