by Janet Levy, American Thinker:
Like most Americans, Kash Patel grew up believing that the country was run as a democracy, with a government that honors the will of the people and is accountable to them.
It was only much later, as an attorney and then as a senior advisor to former president Donald Trump, that he encountered – and confronted – what has come to be called the Deep State, people at the highest levels of government, business, and culture who subvert democracy to serve their own ends.
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In his recent book Government Gangsters: The Deep State, The Truth and the Battle for our Democracy, Patel describes the Deep State in broad terms as the politicization of core American institutions and the federal government. More specifically, this oligarchy includes elected leaders, journalists, business leaders, and NGOs with leftist ideologies. But its most entrenched and active arm comprises “members of the unelected federal bureaucracy who think they have the right to rule America, not Congress or the president.”
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The agents of the Deep State operate through a series of networks, violating their oaths of office, weaponizing the law, and spreading disinformation for political or personal gain at the expense of equal justice and national security. He saw them in operation as the lead investigator of the Russiagate hoax. His book is not just the story of how he battled the leviathan, but also about how the Deep State can be defeated for good.
Patel knows from where he speaks. In his 14 years as public defender and federal prosecutor, and later as a key Trump aide, he has had ample opportunity to trace the insidious machinations of the Deep State within the Department of Justice (DoJ), the FBI, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), the Department of Defense (DoD), the National Security Council (NSC), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He has been inside the belly of the beast.
During his stint at the DoJ, Patel saw selective prosecution and the unequal application of the law at work. Former CIA director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper, both of the Obama administration, were never charged with perjury for lying about NSA programs collecting data on citizens. But Steve Bannon, former Trump advisor, was charged with criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to depose before and submit documents to the January 6th committee. January 6th protestors were characterized as “insurrectionists,” locked up, and denied bail, but BLM-Antifa rioters were mostly exonerated.
The DoJ refused to investigate Joe Biden and his family or bring charges against his son Hunter Biden though their influence peddling with foreign governments and taking cuts on business deals is well documented. The Deep State, in collusion with social media giants, worked to squelch these stories to secure the election for Biden. When the contents of Hunter’s laptop came to light, it was dismissed as “Russian disinformation.”
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