Postscript re popular vs. State power

[juan]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 09:25:09 -0500
Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:

> > National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon
> > 
> > http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Final.pdf
> 

	OK. Finished browsing those more than 100 pages of 'academic'
	garbage. What's the bottom line according to you? 
	
	The author is lying about the relationship between
	bureaucracies like the nsa/cia/fbi etc and bureaucracies like
	the  US 'congress'. Both bureaucracies fully cooperate and are 
	sides of the same coin. 

	The author is of course pretty dishonest about the whole thing.
	At times it seems at if he's critical of the state while at the
	same time constantly praises the 'national security'
	bureaucracy. 

	"The benefits derived by the United States from double
	government —enhanced technical expertise, institutional memory
	and experience, quick-footedness, opaqueness in confronting
	adversaries, policy stability, and insulation from popular
	political oscillation and decisional idiosyncrasy —need hardly
	be recounted."  Aren't his nsa buddies great.
 

	All in all a long piece of statist propaganda from harvard
	university using the very traditional americunt propaganda
	technique of posing as 'liberal 'libertarian' 'critics' of the
	system.