Call him Joe.
The other day Joe said, "With the CIA and the FBI in its pocket, the Deep State calls all the shots behind the scenes. How do I know it? Don't ask."With all due respect to Joe, he hasn't met the Sagan standard, namely, ECREE (Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence). We can't just take his word for it.The CIA and the FBI are well-known as bureaucratic minefields. Their agents can hardly go astray without catching flak. As the saying goes, "the higher the monkey climbs, the more it shows its tail."Meanwhile the congressional watchdog is mandated to look out for monkey business while monitoring the federal government.Speaking of which, who might have the magic wand to orchestrate two million federal employees to serve a Deep State?Civil servants are, in fact, not as sheepish as they appear to the uninitiated. Whistleblowers do pop up. Indeed, America has never run out of courageous whistleblowers who are willing to stick their necks out for the truth. That's the beauty of living in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Whistleblowers' best friend is free press which, incidentally, rewards investigative journalism handsomely in our open society. Watergate is a case in point. The two Washington Post journalists could get to the bottom of the historic scandal thanks to Deep Throat, a whistleblower, who made it possible to unravel Richard Nixon's presidency.Deep State? Give me a break. Author: renqiulan
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