Emerging that u. S. Authorities are investigating the wildly popular chinese owned video sharing app for National Security concerns. And let us know what you think about those stories and others at our t. V. Dot com up next so cross talk a look at how the idea of a deep state has now entered the mainstream. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle the good news if you like and use the term deep state you are no longer deemed a conspiracy theorist the bad news the deep state is very real and powerful and a danger to the democratic process the deep state as the 4th branch of government is a dangerous concept. Cross talking the deep state im joined by my guest ben swann in atlanta he is an investigative journalist and founder of the truth and media project in Fort Lauderdale we have Christopher Metzler he is a legal scholar and in budapest we cross it george said newly he is author of bombs for peace nato is humanitarian war on yugoslavia right gentleme
Chilling. What does happen is that youre in the past 40 years a massive military security has grown up in the United States and its fundamentally a parasitical clause that nobody can really touch and the moment they feel that somebody might interfere in their workings they come out of for roche asli against the elected leaders so what were now having is people who have held the highest office in the United States youve had cia director john brennan you have 4 star general Barry Mccaffrey they openly express their design for the president and they openly advocate. The bligh. Ignoring of the president s wishes by a permanent bureaucracy and this is indeed quite frightening because you know the only people who are accountable ultimately in a democracy are elected leaders and not the National Security up i wrote exactly ben let me go to you in the beautiful city of atlanta watching how the Mainstream Media and you know who im talking about covering all of this here there legitimizing this
Today, its not just democracy integrity andlection but in the 2020 election. So we have a time horizon of 14 months. I think i can put it very well, what is the scenario, its sort of a butterfly balance on steroids. If we have a postelection and if we have a contested result, and even just a couple of counties, and there is a been a Disinformation Campaign that is exposed that may have skewed the results. But i worry about is i dont know how we quite survived the second election here in this country. A second president ial election that comes into serious question. We come at this from a slightly different angle. We are Free Speech Organization but we also see ourselves as guardians of open discourse and of truth. We are not digital specialists and we are not election specialists we are an organization of writers and journalists and editors and publishers and people who are invested in the quality of our discourse and her ability to get facts from falsehood. All of that, we see is very
Our event today its not just democracy, integrity and elections but in the 2020 elections. Wewe have a time horizon of 14 months. I think michael put it off very well, in terms of what the scenario looks like, its sort of a butterfly ballot on steroids, if we have a close election, if we have a contested result and even just a couple of counties and there has been a Disinformation Campaign that is exposed that may have skewed the results, what i worry about is i dont know how we quite survived second election here in the country, a second president ial election that comes into serious question and at pan america we come at this at slightly different angle, we are freespeech organization and we see guardians of open discourse and of truth and we are not digital specialists, we are not election specialists, we are an organization of writers and journalists and editors and publishers and people who are invested in the quality of our discourse and our ability to sort facts from falsehood a
Good afternoon. This cybersecurity subcommittee meets this afternoon to receive testimony on the department of defenses role in protecting the u. S. Election process. The witnesses are mr. Bob butler, cofounder and managing director of cyber strategies, llc. Adjunct senior fellow at the center of new america operations for acom. Heather conley the Senior Vice President for europe, youre asia and the arctic and director of the Europe Program at the center for strategic and international studies, dr. Richard hartnet ahead of Political Science at the university of cincinnati an a former scholar and residence at u. S. Cyber command and the National Security agency and dr. Michael sum wrryer, at the harv kennedy school. At the conclusion of Ranking Member nelsons comments, we will have a round of questions and answers. There is no dispute about what russia did during the 2016 election cycle. There is clear evidence that russia attempted to undermine our democratic process through the hackin