The Biggest Threat to Our Liberty. The National Security State Controls the 3 Branches of Gov.

The Biggest Threat to Our Liberty. The National Security State Controls the 3 Branches of Gov. Future Freedom Foundation
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***The Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — control the Federal Government.***
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May 12, 2022
The Future of Freedom Foundation
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***The Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — control the Federal Government.***
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The other three branches, while permitted to have the appearance of being in control, actually operate in deferential support of their master, the national-security establishment.
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Not the President, Congress/Senate, Nor the Supreme Court Run the United States.
The National Security State - Military - Intelligence Deep State Does.
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What is the greatest threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger addresses that question in this week's Libertarian Angle.
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Go to the podcast https://libertarianangle.libsyn.com/.
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The National Security State
1:21
Three Branches of Government
2:17
Communism and the Soviet Union
10:13
Indefinite Detention
13:03
What Relevance Does the Kennedy Administration and the Kennedy Assassination Have to Current Events
23:05
Jfk and the Unspeakable
31:39
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The Deep State’s Control of NATO and Congress
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Jacob G. Hornberger December 21, 2023
The Future of Freedom Foundation President
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Longtime readers of my blog know that I have long recommended a book entitled National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon, professor of law at Tufts University and former counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee.
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Glennon’s thesis, to which I subscribe, is a simple but ominous one: The U.S. national-security branch of the federal government — that is, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — control the federal government. The other three branches, while permitted to have the appearance of being in control, actually operate in deferential support of their master, the national-security establishment.
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Glennon’s thesis was recently on full display when the members of Congress added a small provision to the 1000-page Defense Authorization Act that prevents a president from withdrawing from NATO without approval from two-thirds of the Senate or an act of Congress, two things that are virtually impossible to achieve given the control that the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA have over Congress.
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Wouldn’t you think that an important provision like NATO membership would be the subject of a separate and independent law rather than a small provision in an annual defense bill? Not if you don’t want lots of discussion and debate about it. In that case, you simply send an order to your minions in Congress to stick that provision in the Defense Authorization Act and don’t make any big fuss about it. Predictably, that’s precisely what the Pentagon’s servants in Congress have done.
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NATO purportedly guarantees that the U.S. military will automatically come to the defense of any member nation that is attacked by another nation. (In actuality, NATO cannot trump the Constitution, which requires a congressional declaration of war before the president can wage war.)
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The Founding Fathers warned against getting embroiled in “entangling alliances” like NATO.
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National Security and Double State
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https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190663995/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QZV2A3Q92VCF&keywords=michael+glennon&qid=1703168095&sprefix=michael+glennon,aps,95&sr=8-1
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Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? 
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National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions" - the President, Congress, and the courts.
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Their roles, he argues, have become largely illusory. Presidential control is now nominal, congressional oversight is dysfunctional, and judicial review is negligible.
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The book details the dramatic shift in power that has occurred from the Madisonian institutions to a concealed "Trumanite network" - the several hundred managers of the military, intelligence, diplomatic, and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for protecting the nation and who have come to operate largely immune from constitutional and electoral restraints.
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Reform efforts face daunting obstacles. Remedies within this new system of "double government" require the hollowed-out Madisonian institutions to exercise the very power that they lack. Meanwhile, reform initiatives from without confront the same pervasive political ignorance within the polity that has given rise to this duality.
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The book sounds a powerful warning about the need to resolve this dilemma-and the mortal threat posed to accountability, democracy, and personal freedom if double government persists. This paperback version features an Afterword that addresses the emerging danger posed by populist authoritarianism rejecting the notion that the security bureaucracy can or should be relied upon to block it.
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