The Deep State (36 page)

9
. “The FBI and NSA Hate Apple's Plan to Keep Your iPhone Data Secret,”
Time,
September 27, 2014. http://time.com/3437222/iphone-data-encryption/.

Chapter Fourteen. America Confronts the World

1
. “Kerry Condemns Russia's ‘Incredible Act of Aggression' in Ukraine,” Reuters, March 2, 2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-kerry-idUSBREA210DG20140302.

2
. “Kerry Sees Ukraine Crisis as Uniquely Putin's,”
Wall Street Journal,
April 29, 2014. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304163604579530141321140198.

3
. “Hillary Clinton: ‘Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS,”
The Atlantic
, August 10, 2014. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/hillary-clinton-failure-to-help-syrian-rebels-led-to-the-rise-of-isis/375832/.

4
. “Stopping Russia Starts in Syria,” CNBC, April 23, 2014. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101605835.

5
. “Blackstone Chief Schwarzman Likens Obama to Hitler over Tax Rises,”
Daily Telegraph,
August 16, 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7949062/Blackstone-chief-Schwarzman-likens-Obama-to-Hitler-over-tax-rises.html.

6
. “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?” (letter),
Wall Street Journal
, January 24, 2014. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579316913982034286.

7
. “Obama Asks for Authorization to Provide Direct Military Training to Syrian Rebels,”
Washington Post,
June 26, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-backs-us-military-training-for-syrian-rebels/2014/06/26/ead59104-fd62-11e3-932c-0a55b81f48ce_story.html.

8
. “Lindsey Graham: We Need Troops to Fight Islamic State ‘Before We All Get Killed Here at Home,'”
Washington Post
, September 14, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/09/14/lindsey-graham-we-need-troops-to-fight-islamic-state-before-we-all-get-killed-here-at-home/.

9
. “Iraq Crisis: How Saudi Arabia Helped Isis Take Over the North of the Country,”
The Independent
, July 13, 2014. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/iraq-crisis-how-saudi-arabia-helped-isis-take-over-the-north-of-the-country-9602312.html.

10
. “Public Acceptance of Evolution,”
Science
, August 11, 2006. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/313/5788/765.

11
. Bernard Lewis,
Islam and the West
, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

12
. “Michele Bachmann: The Rapture Is Coming and It's Obama's Fault,”
Huffington Post
, April 20, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/20/michele-bachmann-obama-rapture_n_7104136.html.

13
. “Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to ‘Erase' Mid-East Enemies ‘Before a New Age Begins,'”
Alternet
, May 24, 2009. http://www.alternet.org/story/140221/bush%27s_shocking_biblical_prophecy_emerges%3A_god_wants_to_%22erase%22_mid-east_enemies_%22before_a_new_age_begins%22.

Chapter Fifteen. Is There an Alternative?

1
. “Decline and Fall: How American Society Unravelled,”
The Guardian
, June 19, 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/19/decline-fall-american-society-unravelled.

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Adelson, Sheldon,
67
–68,
70
,
210

Affordable Care Act (ACA),
80
–81,
150
–51,
205
,
209
,
252

Afghanistan,
43
,
64
,
171
,
216
,
253
,
260

surge in,
81
,
82
–83,
186
,
188
,
189
,
217

withdrawal from,
94

AFRICOM (U.S. African Command),
95
–98

Albright, Madeleine,
60
–61,
107
,
117
–18

Alexander, Keith,
166
,
183

Alito, Samuel A., Jr.,
150
,
151

al-Qaeda,
1
,
112
–13

See also
9/11

ambassadors,
193
–95

American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
10
,
56

Amtrak,
193
,
206
–7

Andreessen, Marc,
164
–65

antigovernment cant,
7
–8,
16

anti-intellectualism,
260
–64

antitrust laws,
153
,
272
–73

antivaccination movement,
260
–61

Apple,
162
,
248

Arab Spring (2011),
173
–74

asset forfeiture laws,
145

BAE Systems, Inc.,
23
–24

Banking Act,
131

Bayesianism,
168
–69

See also
big data

BB&T,
234

Beirut barracks bombing (1982),
156

Beltwayland.
See
D.C. area

Benghazi consulate attack (2012),
156
,
217
,
224
–25

Berlin Wall, fall of,
42

Bernanke, Ben,
72
,
134
,
135
,
137

bribery,
153
–54,
189
–90

big data,
32
,
164
,
167
–71,
174
–75,
195
–96,
247
–49

bipartisanship,
74
,
184
–85,
186
,
209
–10,
230
–31,
254

Blackwater massacre,
102
,
103

blockades,
107
,
117

blowback,
43
,
93
,
113
,
171
–72,
253
,
271

Blue Cross–Blue Shield hacking,
174

“bomber gap,”
51

Born, Brooksley,
77

Brat, David,
234
–35

Bremer, L. Paul,
192
,
195
,
201

Brennan, John,
87
–88,
148
,
185
,
195
,
242

Brookings Institution,
185

Buchanan, Pat,
14
,
21

Budget Control Act (2011),
94
,
104

bureaucratization,
46

Bush, George H. W.,
109

See also
Persian Gulf War

Bush, George W.,
78
–80

and antitrust laws,
273

and Bremer,
192
–93

and Deep State,
33
–34,
62

and executive power,
78
–80

and Hanssen spy case,
90
–91

and health care policy,
81

and Hurricane Katrina,
193

and personnel continuity,
177
,
185
,
186

and rapture beliefs,
263

and Wall Street,
57
–58,
111
–12

and wealthy elites,
123

See also
Iraq War

campaign financing.
See
cash nexus

Capitol Hill Club,
21
–22

Carter, Jimmy,
133

Casey, William,
187

cash nexus,
65
–72

and defense contractors,
85
,
104

and dumbing down of Congress,
66
–67

and economic warfare,
120

and government unresponsiveness to public wishes,
4
,
63
–66,
120

and infrastructure,
212

and “no fault” concept,
141

and private prison lobby,
146

and speaking fees,
71
–72,
78

and Supreme Court,
149
,
151
–52

and Wall Street,
36
,
72
,
78

Cato Institute,
55

celebrities,
19
–21

Center for American Progress,
45

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):

and Afghanistan resistance funding,
171

and ambassadors,
194

and classification policies,
240
–42

as Deep State component,
34

establishment of,
50

and false intelligence,
60
–61

Feinstein speech (2014),
238
–40

ineffectiveness of,
92

1970s reform of,
52

and Obama administration,
242
–43

reform proposals for,
271

and Silicon Valley,
164

and
Washington Post,
13
n

See also
military-industrial complex

change possibilities,
5
,
216
,
266
–68,
277

and double-down strategy,
216
–17

and Feinstein critique of CIA,
238
–40,
242
–43

and Silicon Valley,
246
–49

and Supreme Court,
245
–46

See also
reform proposals

Cheney, Dick:

and continuity-of-government exercises,
28

and double-down strategy,
257

and executive power,
78
–79

and Iran-Contra affair,
80
n

and Iraq,
201

and personnel continuity,
79
,
185

and privatization,
102

and torture,
61
–62,
202

Chertoff, Michael,
24
,
197

Chile,
56
–57

China,
83
,
84
,
97
,
111
,
171
,
173

Citigroup,
118
,
182

Citizens United,
4
,
68
,
70
,
149
,
276

civil rights movement,
59

Civil War,
127

classification policies,
42
n,
116
n,
240
–42,
244
–45

climate change,
263
–64

Clinton, Bill:

and classification policies,
116
n

and end of cold war,
60
,
108
–9

and executive power,
73
,
77
–78

and military-industrial complex,
60
–61

and personnel continuity,
186

and revolving door,
182

speaking fees,
71
,
78

and Wall Street,
57
,
71
,
108
–9

Clinton, Hillary:

and double-down strategy,
250
,
251
,
253
,
257

and Obama administration national security policy,
83
,
252
,
253
,
257

rebranding of,
76
–77

speaking fees,
71

coercive diplomacy,
93

COINTELPRO,
51

cold war,
50
–51,
55
,
58
–59,
72
,
108
,
187

cold war, end of:

and classification policies,
116
n

and Deep State development,
42
–43

and economic warfare,
118

and intelligence ineffectiveness,
187
–88

and military-industrial complex,
58
,
60
–61,
108
–9,
223

and military spending,
108
–9

and nation-state decline predictions,
123
–24

Commodities Futures Modernization Act (2000),
57

conformity, military culture of,
99
–100

Congress:

abdication of power by,
64
,
68
,
72
,
154
–56,
158
–59

attitudes toward Wall Street,
36
n

and change possibilities,
5
,
238
,
245

and continuity-of-government exercises,
79

dumbing down of,
66
–67,
158
–59

earmarking,
228
–30,
232

and Guantánamo Bay prison,
82

and infrastructure,
206
–7,
208

and Iraq War,
4
,
138

leadership as Deep State component,
35

and military spending,
96

and national security policy,
64
,
156
–58

partisan gridlock in,
1
,
30
–32,
68
–69,
86
,
226
–28,
267

Republican takeover (1990s),
1

and Silicon Valley,
37

Congressional Quarterly,
25

conspiracy theories,
33

continuity-of-government exercises,
28
,
79

Cooper-Church Amendment,
155

corporate personhood doctrine,
54
,
141
,
267
,
276
–77

corporations.
See
neoliberal corporate consensus; Wall Street

Coulter, Ann,
223

Council on Foreign Relations,
86

covert agencies,
12

Creation Museum,
261

Crimea occupation,
84
,
104
,
158
,
195
,
252

cruise missiles,
121

Cuba, economic sanctions on,
117
,
119
,
120
–21

cultural assimilation,
41
–42,
46

cyberimplants,
171
–72

D.C. area,
7
–29

celebrities in,
19
–21

as center of Deep State,
37
–38

economic inequality in,
215
–16

ethnic enclaves in,
26
–27

foundations in,
10
–11

government relocation attempts,
27
–29

Leibovich on,
189
–90

military-industrial complex presence in,
12
,
15
–16,
22
–23,
24
–26,
28
–29

myopia of,
15
,
20

and “real Americans” image,
7
–8,
14

socializing in,
17
–19,
21
–22

southern flavor of,
8
–9,
11

wealthy elite neighborhoods in,
12
–15,
16
–17

debt ceiling,
32
,
86
,
227

declassification.
See
classification policies

Deep State:

components of,
34
–36

and Congress's abdication of power,
158
–59

contradictory nature of,
61
–62

defined,
5

evolution of,
32
–34,
40

and irrational cultural forces,
259
–60

parasitic nature of,
218
,
226
–27

public acquiescence in,
29
,
40

synergy of,
38
–40

Tea Party as inconvenience to,
226
–28

Deep State, development of,
42
–44,
48
–62

and cold war,
50
–51,
55
,
58
–59

and foundations,
55
–56

and military-industrial complex,
50
,
51
,
55
,
58

and neoliberal corporate consensus,
53
–55,
62

and 9/11,
43
,
61
–62

and postwar economic consensus,
52
–53,
58
–59

and Vietnam War,
51
–52

and Wall Street deregulation,
57
–58

and World War II,
48
–50

Deep State continuity,
33
–34,
44
–47,
83

and personnel,
55
–56,
79
,
83
n,
176
–77,
184
–85,
186
–87

Deep State incompetence,
40