‘The big loser in all this will probably be the national security bureaucracy itself and, to the extent it is weakened, the security of the American people.’ Illustration: Antoine Doré
Opinion
Jack Goldsmith
Sun 22 Apr 2018 02.00 EDT
Even the most severe critics of the US president should worry about this subtle form of anti-democratic abuse
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/22/leaks-trump-deep-state-fbi-cia-michael-flynn
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A good article that looks at several sides of these issues and the consequences.
This indirectly affects Canada and other nations.
If there was not so much ethics ciolations, misinformation, misleading, lying, crimes, coverups etc… there would not be as much need for leaks and whisleblowers or over surveillance.
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Related
Deep state in the United States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States
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OPINION
Donald Trump is about to expose the Deep State. One problem: It doesn’t exist
LAWRENCE MARTIN, PUBLIC AFFAIRS COLUMNIST, WASHINGTON
SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED MAY 23, 2019, UPDATED MAY 23, 2019
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GOVERNMENTMILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXUS INTELLIGENCE
That ‘Deep State’ You Keep Hearing About? It Doesn’t Exist
Former NSA director Michael Hayden is no white knight. But he’s right on this point, which he makes in his new book, The Assault on Intelligence.
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