What is the Deep State?

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Mr. Beat explains what the "deep state" actually is and why so many people have different definitions of it. Thanks to Evan from @Necessary_Information for joining me to talk about the Deep State. Subscribe to his channel by golly! Thanks to Shannon Beat (Mrs. Beat) for appearing in this video and thanks to my daughter, Lydia, for making the conspiracy board as a prop.

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SNJVuJpImd8g_aiXBcn7vLJqCbon0FlBGdTLIgLNDFs/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading:
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William Arkin
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The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
By David Talbot
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By Tim Weiner
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Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget
By Tim Weinder
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https://daily.jstor.org/the-unacknowledged-origins-of-the-deep-state/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lies-damn-lies-deep-state-plenty-americans-poll/story?id=47032061
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States

Federal workforce estimates primarily come from these three sources:
https://www.archives.gov/research/census
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2004/compendia/statab/123ed/hist/hs-50.pdf
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/executive-branch-civilian-employment-since-1940/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/11/about-500000-private-contractors-have-access-to-top-secret-information/
https://archive.org/details/5-18-risen
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-continues-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/exhibit/the-office-of-strategic-services-n-americas-first-intelligence-agency/

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
01:50 What is the Deep State?
02:07 Mainstreaming the Deep State
03:03 SimpliSafe
04:43 What is the Deep State, really?
05:23 Deep State ideas across history
06:31 A historian’s definition (and Mr. Beat’s version)
07:24 Hypothetical abuse of government resources
07:58 Trump, Kash Patel, and dismantling the Deep State
08:36 The REAL Deep State
10:04 1901
10:32 1908
11:10 WWII
12:43 Post-war: CIA
13:06 CIA and controversial operations
14:11 FBI domestic spying
14:35 CIA and Necessary Information
18:39 Expanding intelligence agencies
19:51 Redefining the Deep State
20:47 Bureaucracy backlash
21:16 Ordinary people and legal transparency
22:38 The fake deep state
24:19 Outro

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