Segment 1: The Administrative State The administrative state has significant power via the establishment, interpretation, and adjudication of enacted regulations. Conflict over the administrative state’s interpretation and usage of such statute s is resolved in the judiciary branch via the courts. The doctrine utilized in resolving such conflicts is the Chevron Doctrine. This segment contains excerpts on the threat this governance system poses as well as explaining the Chevron Doctrine including how it is applied by the courts.
Segment 2: Unmasking the Administrative State Many contend that Congress has surrendered much of its power to the administrative state by passing hollow legislation that confers the real lawmaking powers on to the unelected bureaucracy with little oversight by the judiciary. This segment examines that claim.
Segment 3: Too Much Law Over the last few decades laws in our nation have exploded in number, are increasingly more complex, with punishments that are more severe. Many of the laws now come from agency officials largely insulated from democratic accountability. Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, argues that some law is essential to our lives and our freedoms, but too much law can place those very same laws at risk and even undermine respect for the law itself. This segment contains excerpts supporting his case.
Segment 4: Departments & Agencies This segment provides details on the government’s 15 departments and 575 agencies of the executive branch, including their function, size, budget, responsibilities, and leadership. Additionally, it will cover the major independent agencies (those outside of the departments) and thirteen independent regulatory agencies. It provides a sense of the vastness of our government.
Segment 5: U.S. Intel: 1920 – 1947 The FBI was founded in 1908 but started to take hold when J. Edgar hoover was promoted to head the Justice Department’s General Intelligence Division at the age of 24. This segment covers its history through prohibition, organized crime, the infiltration of cultural Marxism, U.S. intelligence through World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and McCarthyism.
Segment 6: U.S. Intel: WWII – 9/11/2001 Segment 5 covers the intelligence communities’ efforts to save America and the Western world from Communism, the continuing infiltration of cultural Marxism and the emergence of a New Left. This includes the implementation of FBI’s counterintelligence program and the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947. Then 9/11/2001 hit and the intelligence agencies were severely criticized for failing to detect the terrorist conspiracy. The USA Patriot Act was passed which greatly expanded the domestic security apparat, lead to further infusion of cultural Marxism in the country, and upended U.S. intelligence agency operations and morale.
Segment 7: The CIA: 1947 – current In 1947, to support its new global status the United States created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years the agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, engaging it regime change activities within other countries, and surveilling dissenters at home. They used the covert powers of the agency to hide overseas intervention. This story is told via excerpts from Hugh Wilford’s book The CIA: An Imperial History.
Segment 8: The FBI: 2001 – current Starting with cultural changes following the horrific attack of 9/11, the FBI was transformed from a reactive crime fighting organization into a domestic intelligence and security organization. Some of those changes planted the seeds for numerous problems and challenges that have eroded the FBI’s standing with the American public. The needed recovery will take humility and unshakeable leadership. This segment analysis some of the problems and challenges.
Segment 9: The Department of Defense (DOD) – The Pentagon The Department of Defense has approximately 775,000 full-time employees with a budget of $850 billion/year. It is a huge business. Knowing little about it I set out to learn its organizational structure, what it does, how it interacts with other agencies, its need for and interactions with defense contractors, who are its constituents, its internal processes and how it develops and innovates new warfare. This segment will summarize my resultant understanding via excerpts.
Segment 10: Department of Defense (DOD) – The Military The new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, wrote a book titled The War on Warriors. In it he details his view of today’s military. The commentary on the inside flap of the cover reads, “The War on Warriors” uncovers the deep roots of our dysfunction – a society that has forgotten the men who take risks, cut through red tape, and get their hands dirty, the only kind of men prepared to face the dangers that the Left pretends don’t exist. Unlike issues of education or taxes or crime, this problem doesn’t have a zip code solution. We can’t move away from it. We can’t avoid it. We have only one Pentagon. Either we take it back or surrender it altogether.”
Segment 11: U. S. Intel: 9/11 to now This segment analyzes how each of the last three Presidents approached the Intelligence Community – from the Obama revolution on the community, to no reform or strategy for the community by Trump, to Biden’s expansion of Obama’s intelligence initiatives.
Segment 12: Psy War Psychological War occurs when governments or other organizations coordinate and direct the deployment of propaganda, censorship, and uses other psychological tools (psyops) and weapons in campaigns designed to manipulate public opinion. The United States government has routinely waged Psy War against U.S. citizens. This segment will provide the details.
Segment 13: Deep States in the FBI and DOD This is the first of five segments on the deep state which exists in the executive branch today. The deep state is defined as a type of shadow government made up of informal, extra-constitutional, secret, and unauthorized networks of power operating independently of a nation-state’s duly elected political leadership acting in pursuit of agendas and goals that are separate from the interests of the citizenry. This segment focuses on such actions within the FBI and DOD.
Segment 14: Deep State in the Department of Justice (DOJ) Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker reports in his book Above the Law how the Department of Justice was steered off course by a Deep State made up of Washington insiders who saw themselves as above the law. Recklessly infected, bending and breaking the law to achieve their own political goals, they relentlessly undermined the Constitution by flaunting the rightful authority of a President they despised.
Segment 15: Deep State in Health and Human Services (HHS) Psy War technologies were deployed against U.S. licensed physicians who contradicted officially promoted false narratives concerning the COVID crisis and the abysmal public health policies that were promoted by the WHO, HHS and specifically the CDC. This segment exposes a collective cabal of power-hungry elites who put profits over people and their survival.
Segment 16: Deep State Playbook This file reveals how corrupt senior officials enriched their patrons at taxpayer expense, advanced the interests of American enemies, undermined core U.S. national interests from within the Department of Defense, and made administrative reform impossible. Even longtime Washington insiders will be shocked at the extent of lawlessness that now passes for normal in the American administrative state. Segment 17: Reformation This ending segment provides excerpts on potential ideas to reform the FBI, CIA, DOJ, DOD, and HHS plus eradicating much of the Deep State. Further it provides a critique of Trump’s effort to address the “swamp” in his first term which yielded little improvement.
Segment 18: Power This bonus segment defines the importance of power in governance. It explores the differences between negative power and positive power, how language is used in support of either, and the resultant impact on both individual rights and liberty.