The power to classify information has given the intelligence agencies the power to do whatever they want. They can classify anything they choose so no one can find out what they are doing or question the need for their activities or secrecy. They gain influence over defense contractors by awarding government contracts. The money from those contracts, which comes from the tax payers - you and me - is then used to get control over the government through campaign donations by the defense contractors and through job offers to politicians and aides when they leave government service. After the intelligence agencies commit a few crimes they realize they can never give up power or they will be prosecuted and they then commit more crimes protecting themselves (killing, intimidating, financially ruining, smearing the character of whistle blowers and anyone who opposes them or their projects) and because once you are committed to a pattern of crime and have no risk of punishment, there is no incentive to limit yourself to legal means.
What may have started as a justified concern about national security and public order has blown up into an extra-constitutional network that has usurped the power of elected officials and thus the power of the voters, the people, and democracy. It might have seemed like a good idea at the time. In hindsight it was a horrible mistake.
In this video, former CIA officer Kevin Shipp explains the relationship between the shadow government and the deep state.
The shadow government he says consists of the 17 intelligence agencies and is led by the CIA.
The deep state he says is the military industrial intelligence complex which is a group of corporations that receives $1 trillion a year in tax revenues spent by the government on military and intelligence contracts.
The owners of media corporations cooperate with the CIA and publish stories to influence public opinion.
This web of corporations and intelligence agencies controls the elected government in the US.
The shadow government can do whatever it wants because it can hide its activities by classifying any information about its activities it chooses. There is no way for the elected government to control it. Its budget is secret.
The military industrial intelligence complex controls congress through
- Campaign donations.
- Lobbying.
- Providing jobs when senators and staffers leave congress.
- The President by
- Providing false information.
- Influencing elections.
- Congress by
- Manipulating congressional hearings.
- Withholding clearances from representatives and senators.
- Classifying documents to conceal illegal activity.
- The judiciary by
- State secrets privilege - they can shut down any court case against them by classifying any information they choose.
- Everyone
- Through the cooperation of media corporations that publish stories to influence public opinion.
There is much much more information in the video above.
Catherine Austin Fitts has written extensively on how the deep state and shadow government have been illegally appropriating money from the US taxpayers.
https://missingmoney.solari.com/
$21 Trillion dollars is missing from the US government. That is $65,000 for every person in America. That is more than our entire national debt!
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This means the Fed and their member banks are transacting government money outside the law. So are the corporate contractors that run the payment systems. So are the Wall Street firms who are selling government securities without full disclosure.
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This is the reason that there is such a strong push to change or tear up the US Constitution. This is why members of the establishment say it is 'old,' 'outdated!'
Next is a video from July 2015 of Catherine Austin Fitts describing her own observations of how the deep state controls the elected government with blackmail, threats of violence, or simply threats of false accusations which will ruin a person's life as they try to prove their innocence. The Trump "dossier" is an example of what they do to someone who can't be blackmailed or frightened:
https://solari.com/blog/solari-stories-scandals-control-files-and-blackmail/
In the excerpt below, Catherine Austin Fitts describes how a top level official was blackmailed with "sexual dirt" in 1989, and how she was harassed with fake accusations:
So, it was several days later, I got called into the Secretary's office and he said, "Have you found a way to do this?" And I said, "No. There's no legal way to do this. You can't"And he was, litterally - I have never seen a man that frightened in my life - he was scared to death. And I was sure just from watching him that he was under extreme political pressure and I believe blackmail. And he just looked scared to death. And I went back up to my office and one of my deputies pulled me aside and he said, "You know you have to be very very careful" he said, "because you know there's real sexual dirt on the Secretary. So you have to be real careful."
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That was the same time the Franklin scandal hit the Washington Times headlines.
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Even if you don't have a control file, you know I always encourage all of our subscribers to watch the movie Enemy of the State because it's a perfect example of, you know, Will Smith plays a totally clean lawyer in Washington and so he's got nothing in, his control file is empty, and yet the intellegence agencies are able to persuade his own family that he's corrupt when he's not, his own partners he's corrupt when he's not.
I went through a similar process and so people are not only afraid of what's in their control file, but they're afraid of spending eleven years in litigation proving that there's nothing in their control file.
You have a situation where, I always get very frustrated with citizens who think, oh lets just go talk to our senator. Well your senator is subject to these kinds of powers and controls that are very invisible but are very real.
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We're literally watching a government that is being run by coercion whether it's the blackmail or control file or physical violence. If you don't do what you're told, there's really issues of physical violence now.
Catherine Austin Fitts' Blog is here:
https://solari.com/blog/
This video contains an interview with Catherine Austin Fitts by Alex Jones. It starts at 44:55:
Here is another very good video in which the federal bureaucracies are referred to as the deep state:
Senator Chuck Schumer, "If you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you."
Phil Mudd, former CIA agent, "The government is going to kill this guy [President Trump]".
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