Interview · moment 13 of 28
The Deep State as the Praetorian Guard
from Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433 · #433
3 min
Guest
Bannon describes the CIA, intelligence community, and Pentagon as an unelected 'Deep State' that operates like the Roman Praetorian Guard, deciding who is really in charge, and how they lied to him about Afghanistan and troop levels.
- The Deep State comprises the Pentagon, intelligence community, CIA, NSA, Justice Department, DHS, FBI, and Defense Intelligence Agency elements.
- Tim compares the Deep State to the Praetorian Guard in the Roman Empire—so powerful they decide who becomes emperor, which is why they removed Trump and installed Biden.
- A parallel command structure exists outside the executive branch where the president isn't read into certain intelligence and is actively lied to about troop levels in Syria.
- It's not a parallel command structure—it is the command structure; these people will look you in the eye and lie to you.
- Tim worked with Eric Prince in the first days to plan the president's exit from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years there.
- The intelligence apparatus makes up their own numbers; Tim requested briefings showing troop progress at specific intervals over 20 years.
- Every briefing, regardless of whether Bush or Obama was president, claimed they just needed more money and three more years to succeed.
- Defense contractors like General Dynamics drive the agenda alongside long-serving intelligence figures like Brennan, Clapper, and Hayden.
- Brennan is described as a very dangerous individual who keeps coming up in discussions of the intelligence apparatus.
- These top officials have coaching trees and influence embedded deep throughout the entire apparatus.
Deep StateDonald TrumpJoe BidenJohn BrennanNSAAfghanistanJames ClapperMichael HaydenGeneral DynamicsEric PrinceFBICIA