{"id":41417,"date":"2014-03-31T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=41417"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:35:09","slug":"the-deep-state-hiding-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/03\/the-deep-state-hiding-in-plain-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>February 21, 2014<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows about the military-industrial complex, which, in his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned had the potential to \u201cendanger our liberties or democratic process\u201d but have you heard of the \u201cDeep State?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about what he calls Washington&#8217;s &#8220;Deep State,&#8221; in which elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war<\/i>,&#8221; Lofgren tells Moyers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(26:40)<\/strong><br \/>\nhttpv:\/\/vimeo.com\/87243281<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about the &#8220;Deep State,&#8221; in which elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. \u201cIt is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war.&#8221; (26:40)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}