Conclusion: Is there a “Deep State”?
Unsurprisingly, the notion of a “Deep State” apparatus has been derided as a “conspiracy theory”—by the adherents of the Deep State. In fact, common sense dictates that in an enormous institution like the U.S. government, whose key administrators are frequently replaced in elections, there must be what the British like to call “continuity of government”: a permanent team of bureaucrats who offer their expertise to each newly elected administration, while retaining their own ideological prejudices, their own unchanging agendas, and their long-term allegiances to people and institutions both within and without the government per se (such as the infamous “Military-Industrial Complex). These people are the actual day-to-day managers of government, and it takes an exceptionally tough leader to compel them to change course.
The hue and cry over the nominations of Gabbard and Patel suggests that these individuals —and the Administration that they hope to represent— may have the opportunity, means, and motivation to finally clean out the painfully obvious, longstanding corruption in the government agencies they will run. It is urgent that they be confirmed.
Once that happens, the people of the United States must then demand and secure the immediate formation of a new “Church Committee,” a Congressional committee to investigate the unauthorized, lying and criminal operations of the nation's intelligence agencies, 50 years after Sen. Frank Church valiantly sought to do so. We must expose the Liars Bureau, and prosecute its members to the fullest extent of the law. We must fight to bring to light all the crimes committed against the American Presidency, and American republic, by its enemies, foreign and domestic—especially those operating under the guise of the British-American “special relationship.” This is an essential precondition for the United States to regain its once-honorable and trusted role in the world community, and the confidence of the American people in “equal justice under the law” for all its citizens.