The Deep State (38 page)

Homeland Security Department (DHS),
28
,
34
,
93
–94

See also
domestic surveillance; military-industrial complex

House of Cards,
177
–79

hubris,
42
,
49
–50,
51
,
60
,
61
,
180
–81,
184
,
255
,
257

human rights,
112
–14

Hurricane Katrina,
193

Hurricane Sandy,
71

ideology,
1
–3,
183
–84,
190

See also
neoliberal corporate consensus

immigration,
165
,
274
–75

Imperial Presidency, The
(Schlesinger),
72
–73

incarceration rate,
143
,
146
,
210

information technology.
See
Silicon Valley

infrastructure,
32
,
193
,
206
–8,
210
,
211
–12,
272

intellectual property issues,
160
–61

Internet.
See
Silicon Valley

Iran,
27
,
68
–69,
117
,
119
–20,
263

Iran-Contra scandal,
75
–76,
80
n,
169
,
187

Iraq:

economic sanctions on,
107
,
117
–18

Persian Gulf War,
42
,
61
,
156

Iraq War,
2
,
4
,
27
,
39
,
43
,
138
,
179

Blackwater massacre,
102
,
103

Coalition Provisional Authority,
59
n,
191

and dollar recycling,
111
–12

and double-down strategy,
188
–89,
254

and economic inequality,
114
–15

and executive power,
78
,
155
–56

and false intelligence,
92

and fear as tactic,
137
–38

and incompetence,
102
,
191
–93,
217

and “no fault” concept,
47
,
180
,
195
,
264

Obama administration's withdrawal from,
45
,
94
,
155

and psychopathy,
201

and rapture beliefs,
263

and United Kingdom,
24

Iron Dome,
209
–10

IRS “scandal” (2013),
223
–24

ISIS,
43
,
104
,
114
,
157
,
256
–58

See also
Syrian civil war

isolationism argument,
203
,
212
–13

Israel,
68
,
69
–70,
205
,
209
–10

Janis, Irving L.,
41

Jefferson, Thomas,
266
,
273

jobs,
16
,
214
–15,
272
,
274
–75

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
59
,
73

Johnson, Samuel,
189

Justice Department,
34
,
242

Kasich, John,
75
,
79
,
198
,
200
,
244

Kennedy, Anthony M.,
150

Kennedy, John F.,
8
,
12
,
51
,
73

Kerry, John,
203
,
252
,
272

Keynes, John Maynard,
54
,
58
–59,
107

King v. Burwell,
151

Koch brothers,
55
,
224

Korean War,
73
,
114

laissez-faire economics.
See
neoliberal corporate consensus

Latin America,
129

See also
Iran-Contra scandal

law and economics movement,
153

Lehman Brothers,
198
–200

liberal elite,
8
,
12
–13

See also
wealthy elites

libertarianism,
38
n,
163
–65

Libya,
27
,
32
,
112
,
156
,
217
,
224
–25

lobbyists,
20
–21,
120
–21,
231
–32

See also
cash nexus

Lochner v. New York,
152

McCain, John,
100
,
209
,
257

McConnell, Mitch,
209

McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission,
149
,
151
–52

McGovern, George,
55

McLean, Virginia,
13
–14

McMansions,
13
,
16
–17

McNamara, Robert,
180
n

Man Nobody Knows, The
(Barton),
130

“man of the people” image.
See
“real Americans” image

Marshall, Andrew,
83
–84

Marshall Plan,
58
–59

media:

and domestic surveillance,
29

and double-down strategy,
251
,
252
,
257

and dumbing down of Congress,
67

House of Cards,
177
–79

leaks to,
83
,
245

and liberal elite,
12
–13

and military spending,
94
,
116
n

on partisan gridlock,
30
–31

and Tea Party,
223

and unequal justice,
151

in Washington, D.C.,
10
,
11

See also
specific media outlets

Mencken, H. L.,
20
,
66
,
89
,
218

middle-class decline,
45
,
57
,
64
,
115
,
116

military bases,
28
–29,
84
,
92
–93,
95
–96,
270

military-domestic trade-offs,
4
,
203
–10,
212
–17

arguments for,
203
–4,
212
–14

and bipartisanship,
209
–10

and cash nexus,
64

and change possibilities,
268
–69

and economic inequality,
203
–6

and infrastructure,
206
–8

and Iraq War,
2

jobs argument for,
214
–15

and partisan gridlock,
32

and Wall Street–driven foreign policy,
115
–16

See also
military spending

military-industrial complex:

classification policies,
42
n,
116
n,
240
–42,
244
–45

cold war institutionalization of,
50
,
51
,
55
,
58

critiques of,
38
,
39
,
51

culture of conformity in,
99
–100

D.C. area presence,
12
,
15
–16,
22
–23,
24
–26,
28
–29

downsizing proposals,
270
–71

and end of cold war,
58
,
60
–61

military bases,
28
–29,
84
,
92
–93,
95
–96,
270

and neoliberal corporate consensus,
56
–57

and perpetual war,
61
,
98
–99,
258

and policy inconsistencies,
56

privatization,
102
–3,
115

research and development,
37
,
214
–15

and Silicon Valley,
164
,
165
–67

soldiers as warrior caste,
98
–99,
260

unusable weapon systems,
100
–102

World War II growth of,
48
–49

See also
Deep State incompetence; defense contractors; military spending; national security policy

military spending:

and Deep State development,
57

and earmarking,
230

and end of cold war,
108
–9

ineffectiveness of,
92
–95,
100
–102,
103

jobs argument for,
214
–15

and military bases,
92
–93

and nuclear weapons,
49
n

under Obama administration,
45

and personnel continuity,
187

and Wall Street–driven foreign policy,
107
–8,
115
–16

and war on terrorism,
105

See also
military-domestic trade-offs

Mises, Ludwig von,
54

money in politics.
See
cash nexus

Morgan Bank,
130
,
267

Nader, Ralph,
232
,
233
,
234

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement),
71

National Football League (NFL),
224

National Journal,
25

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),
131

National Security Act (1947),
50

National Security Agency (NSA),
50
,
196
–97

See also
domestic surveillance; Snowden revelations

National Security Council (NSC),
34
,
50

national security policy:

AFRICOM,
95
–98

and blowback,
43
,
93
,
253
,
271

and cash nexus,
69
–70,
85
,
104

Congress's role in,
64
,
156
–58

and fear as tactic,
50
,
51
n,
137
–38

and hubris,
184

Middle East exit proposal,
271
–72

military authorizations,
155
–56,
157

and partisan gridlock,
31
–32,
68
–69

and rapture beliefs,
262
–63

and Tea Party,
233

See also
double-down strategy; Obama administration's national security policy; Wall Street–driven foreign policy; war on terrorism

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization),
84

naval blockades,
117

neoliberal corporate consensus:

and antitrust laws,
273

and corporate deregulation,
133

corporate personhood doctrine,
54
,
141
,
267
,
276
–77

and Deep State development,
53
–55,
62

Deep State personnel's belief in,
184
,
192

and end of cold war,
58

and “entitlement reform,”
116

and foundations,
55
–56

Friedman on,
132
–33

and health care policy,
275
–76

and immigration,
274

Plaza Accord,
60

and Powell Memorandum,
53
–54,
55
,
56
,
133

and prison privatization,
210

and Tea Party,
219

and unequal justice,
152
–54

See also
Wall Street; Wall Street–driven foreign policy

Net Assessment Office,
83
–84

New America Foundation,
253
–54

New Deal,
21
,
52
–53,
58
–59,
131
–32,
267

“New Economy,”
43

9/11,
1
,
2
,
105
,
106

and big data,
168
–69

and Deep State development,
43
,
61
–62

and Department of Homeland Security,
93

and domestic surveillance,
29
,
61
,
245

and economic warfare,
118

and executive power,
155

and fear as tactic,
105
–6,
137
–38

and government relocation attempts,
27
–29

and growth of defense contractors,
26
,
35

9/11 Commission report,
112
–13

“no fault” response,
44
,
169

and Tea Party's emergence,
3

and U.S.-Saudi relations,
112
–13

See also
war on terrorism

Nisbet, Robert,
40
n,
169
,
186

Nixon, Richard M.,
51
,
52
,
54
,
72
–73,
75
,
110

“no fault” concept,
40
n,
141
–43

and domestic surveillance,
61

and financial crisis (2008),
44
,
47
,
119
,
135
n,
141
,
200