We've all surely had dark thoughts that the CIA is really running the United States, including many media venues.
If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the "Deep state," what is?
Deeply troubling too, since the CIA has been managing regime change the world over for a very long time, and is now directly involved in U.S. politics at the most intimate level.
What about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, and Calvin Coolidge? They were all previous presidents, according to the history books that people once read. There was no CIA back then.
You hear the rap that these agencies-the CIA is one but there are many adjacent others-are not allowed by law to intervene in domestic politics.
We know from vast evidence and personal testimony that the CIA has been manipulating political figures, narratives, and outcomes for a very long time.
How involved is the CIA in journalism today? Well, as a traditionally liberal paper, you might suppose that the NYT itself would be highly skeptical of the CIA. But these days, they have published a long string of aggressively defensive articles with titles like "It Turns Out that the Deep State Is Awesome" and "Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe." We can add this last piece to the list.
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