Heather - Thank you for highlighting the key role our government agencies have in upholding numerous aspects of Americans' quality of life --- and the Biden Admin's revitalization of agencies' proactive role.
Thank you, Dr. Cox Richardson, for yet another superbly aimed, steely dart of polemic. I've found your books and these letters so illuminating that I've recommended them to about 20 people. Your work is surely having real effects on the unfolding history it helps explain, and I hope you reach millions more readers in the coming months and years. Despite the darkness it depicts, your spirited prose has been uplifting and inspiring in a time when avoiding despair is a constant challenge. You're a national treasure.
I realize you may already be well aware of this, but I want to mention (since it might be helpful to some of my fellow readers) that the phrase "deep state" had a very salient, analytically useful meaning before it was rendered useless by the MAGA movement. Whereas the public state is affected by our votes, our petitions, perhaps even our marches in the streets, the deep state is not; it comprises all those unelected, abiding institutions--many of them within the national security state--whose work is subject to little or no meaningful oversight by Congress or the rest of the public state.
The phrase "deep state" was apparently coined in Turkish political science by Ryan Gingeras. But it was developed much further by historian Peter Dale Scott of UC Berkeley, in a series of extraordinary books about ongoing systemic relationships in U.S. and world history between the public state on the one hand and, on the other, various unelected authorities (especially intelligence agencies) and an array of forces including organized crime, narcotraffic, arms dealers, oil interests, insurgent groups, and various wealthy clients of paramilitaries. Rigorously grounded and sourced, Scott's work illuminates events like the Vietnam War, Watergate, BCCI / Iran-Contra, and the domestic political assassinations of the 1960s, in ways that many historians are not trained or positioned to do. These same issues are, of course, often distorted by disinformation, propaganda, and apologetics.
The phrase "deep state" may be useless now that Trump has twisted it, but it was once a powerful explanatory construct, to which I have hardly done justice here. Thanks for your time, and for all your brilliant work.
Heather - Thank you for highlighting the key role our government agencies have in upholding numerous aspects of Americans' quality of life --- and the Biden Admin's revitalization of agencies' proactive role.
Thank you, Dr. Cox Richardson, for yet another superbly aimed, steely dart of polemic. I've found your books and these letters so illuminating that I've recommended them to about 20 people. Your work is surely having real effects on the unfolding history it helps explain, and I hope you reach millions more readers in the coming months and years. Despite the darkness it depicts, your spirited prose has been uplifting and inspiring in a time when avoiding despair is a constant challenge. You're a national treasure.
I realize you may already be well aware of this, but I want to mention (since it might be helpful to some of my fellow readers) that the phrase "deep state" had a very salient, analytically useful meaning before it was rendered useless by the MAGA movement. Whereas the public state is affected by our votes, our petitions, perhaps even our marches in the streets, the deep state is not; it comprises all those unelected, abiding institutions--many of them within the national security state--whose work is subject to little or no meaningful oversight by Congress or the rest of the public state.
The phrase "deep state" was apparently coined in Turkish political science by Ryan Gingeras. But it was developed much further by historian Peter Dale Scott of UC Berkeley, in a series of extraordinary books about ongoing systemic relationships in U.S. and world history between the public state on the one hand and, on the other, various unelected authorities (especially intelligence agencies) and an array of forces including organized crime, narcotraffic, arms dealers, oil interests, insurgent groups, and various wealthy clients of paramilitaries. Rigorously grounded and sourced, Scott's work illuminates events like the Vietnam War, Watergate, BCCI / Iran-Contra, and the domestic political assassinations of the 1960s, in ways that many historians are not trained or positioned to do. These same issues are, of course, often distorted by disinformation, propaganda, and apologetics.
https://www.peterdalescott.net/bib/
The phrase "deep state" may be useless now that Trump has twisted it, but it was once a powerful explanatory construct, to which I have hardly done justice here. Thanks for your time, and for all your brilliant work.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-unacknowledged-origins-of-the-deep-state/
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