This former Canadian diplomat and college professor has gathered enormous amounts of updated documented information regarding a number of issues related to the title of this article, the major one, being that of a "deep state" functioning and directing all matters of major importance to a hidden ruling directorate serving the interests of the core of the ruling capitalist class. Once again, he provides considerable evidence that the locus of this deep state, or what I prefer to call a "shadow government", lies in the banking and financial circles in alliance with major fossil fuel players. This multinational network constitutes:
...a deep state behind the public one. And this parallel government is guided in surveillance matters by its own Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court, which according to the New York Times “has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court.” ....
Most Americans have by and large not questioned this parallel government, accepting that sacrifices of traditional rights and traditional transparency are necessary to keep us safe from al-Qaeda attacks.
...at the apex of this pyramid [of power] are probably the banks and the colossi of the military-industrial-petroleum complex.