President Theodore Roosevelt once cautioned: "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government ofwing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task." This was in 1912.
World War II hero and former U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) once observed, in a different context: "One vision was described in the testimony of Admiral Poindexter, Lieutenant Colonel North, General Secord, and Mr. Hakim: That of a secret government, directed principally by NSC staffers, accountable to not a single elected official, including apparently the President himself — a shadowy government with its own air force, its own navy, its own fund-raising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances and free from the law itself.
It is an elitist vision of government that trusts no one, not the people, not the
Congress, and not the Cabinet.
It is a vision of a government operated by persons convinced they have a monopoly on truth."
President Theodore Roosevelt once cautioned: "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government ofwing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task." This was in 1912.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/theodore-roosevelt-films/articles-and-essays/sound-recordings-of-theodore-roosevelts-voice/
World War II hero and former U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) once observed, in a different context: "One vision was described in the testimony of Admiral Poindexter, Lieutenant Colonel North, General Secord, and Mr. Hakim: That of a secret government, directed principally by NSC staffers, accountable to not a single elected official, including apparently the President himself — a shadowy government with its own air force, its own navy, its own fund-raising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances and free from the law itself.
It is an elitist vision of government that trusts no one, not the people, not the
Congress, and not the Cabinet.
It is a vision of a government operated by persons convinced they have a monopoly on truth."
This was in 1912.
https://dkii.org/speeches/august-03-1987/