The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government。
美國前共和黨議員助理Mike Lofgren在2014年出版了著作
《深層政府：憲法的隕落及影子政府的崛起》，他將深層政府定義為「一個混合政府部門、金融巨頭和工業巨頭的集團，它是國家安全和執法機構的混合體
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它們能夠有效的控管美國，而無需經過民主，也無須透過正式的政治程序。深層政府是最可見的陰謀，是憲政主義的失敗，以及社團主義與全球反恐戰爭的交織」，並表示這個影子政府是以稅收為基礎，不受《美國憲法》制約，也不受白宮的影響，逍遙法外。
The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred exposé of who really wields power in Washington.
Every Four years, tempers are tested and marriages fray as Americans head to the polls to cast their votes. But does anyone really care what we think? Has our vaunted political system become one big, expensive, painfully scriped reality TV show? In this cringe-inducing expose of the sins and excesses of Beltwayland, a longtime Republican party insider argues that we have become an oligarchy in form if not in name. Hooked on war, genuflecting to big donors, in thrall to discredited economic theories and utterly bereft of a moral compass, America’s governing classes are selling their souls to entrenched interest while our bridges collapse, wages, stagnate, and our water is increasingly undrinkable.
Drawing on sinsights gleaned over three decades on Capitol Hill, much of it on the Budget Committee, Lofgren paints a gripping portrait of the dismal swamp on the Potomac and the revolution it will take to reclaim our government and set us back on course.
美國政府的政黨惡鬥,其專業知識程度可以說是全世界的模範生,一般人只看到美國的表面,卻不知悉美國政府內部,錯綜複雜的運作體系,所謂的"深層政府"深深的影響到,執政黨的決策,並且影響到執行力,如今美國政府的本身就是深層政府,球員兼裁判的玩弄全世界.
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深層政府（deep state，又譯為深國、深國論、深層集團、暗黑帝國、國中之國、陰森國度、暗勢力）是一個陰謀論，指非經民選，由政府官僚、公務員、軍事工業複合體、金融業、財團、情報機構所組成的，為保護其既得利益，幕後真正並實際控制國家的集團。
語源來自土耳其語「Derin devlet」，指鄂圖曼帝國垮台前就存在的秘密政治社團；後來被陰謀論者引用，指的是國家中的國家、政府中的政府。早期研究者以影子政府形容，有時是「新世界秩序」的同義詞。近年在美國已成為政治學術語，指在美國聯邦政府背後真正的掌權機構。
2017年唐納·川普就任美國總統後，美國聯邦政府與官僚關係緊張，在野民主黨控制的州份如加州、華盛頓州及紐約州政府抵制川普政府大部分政策如移民及氣候變化等，以及社交網絡出現大量與川普政府對抗的非官方帳戶，該術語有日漸風行的趨勢。
雖然特定國家深層政府的組成有所不同，但它們或多或少集中在前美國總統德懷特·艾森豪提出的術語「軍事工業複合體」當中，而且情報機構對其運作至關重要。它們由以下組成：
國家主要的情報機構。
資深的政治人物，是隱藏的決策者，他們透過各種手段和決策逃避商業媒體的審查，並且許多政治人物也受到他們的監管。
政府內部的一些高級或長期非民選官員（如高層公務員）。
有權控制主要商業、軍事或犯罪集團的個人： 國防工業
反恐工業
國家金融部門
企業集團與新聞媒體.
約翰·甘迺迪:第35任美國總統約翰·甘迺迪（1961－1963）在美國報紙出版業者協會的演說中表示： 「 『秘密』這個詞在自由開放的社會中是令人厭惡的。而我們作為一個歷史民族，自然而然是反對秘密社團、秘密宣誓，以及任何秘密議程。
唐納·川普第45任美國總統唐納·川普的支持者，使用這個詞來指情報機構官員和行政部門官員透過消息洩漏或其他內部手段干預及抵制國家的政策。
川普總統的白宮幕僚常常提到深層政府，他們認為這個集團正在破壞美國總統的權威。根據《華盛頓郵報》的報導，美國總統顧問史蒂芬·班農談了他的觀點：「深層政府對川普擔任總統職務具有直接威脅」。
「 他們錯誤的選擇了比川普更糟的派別，就是深層政府與劣跡斑斑的中央情報局，他們是軟政變陰謀的參與者，刻意刁難川普當選，並設法阻止他頒布新政策。
前中央情報局分析師賴瑞·強森表示，華府的內部人士，包括中央情報局局長、國家情報總監、國家安全局的某些資深人士應該被革職，他們正試圖擊垮川普的總統職權。
DEEP STATE
A deep state (from Turkish: derin devlet)[why?], also known as a state within a state, is a type of governance made up of networks of power operating independently of a states political leadership in pursuit of their own agenda and goals. In popular usage, the term carries an overwhelmingly negative context although this does not reflect scholarly understanding. Potential sources for deep state organization include organs of state, such as the armed forces or public authorities (intelligence agencies, police, secret police, administrative agencies, and government bureaucracy). A deep state can also take the form of entrenched career civil servants acting in a non-conspiratorial discretionary manner to further their agency mission or the public good, sometimes in contravention of the current political administration. The intent of a deep state can include continuity of the state itself, job security for its members, enhanced power and authority, and the pursuit of ideological or programmatic objectives. It can operate in opposition to the agenda of elected officials, by obstructing, resisting, and subverting their policies, conditions and directives.
Scholarly understanding:Within social science in general and political science specifically, scholars distinguish between positivism ("what is") and normativism ("what should be").[5] Because political science deals with topics which are inherently political and often controversial, this distinction between "what is" (positive) and "what should be" (normative) is critical because it allows diverse people with different preferred worlds to discuss the causes, workings, and effects of policies and social structures.[] Thus, while readers may disagree on the normative qualities of the "deep state" (i.e. whether it is good or bad), it is still possible to study the positive qualities (i.e. its origins and effects) without requiring a normative judgement.[]
Popular understanding:In the United States after the 2016 United States presidential election, the term "deep state" has become much more widely used as pejorative term with an overwhelmingly negative definition by both the new Donald Trump administration as well as the wider news media.[] In the United States news media and social media usage during the Donald Trump administration, the term deep state has come to be an all-purpose scapegoat for elements of the United States federal civil service which the administration opposes.[]
In the United States of America, the "deep state" is used to describe "a hybrid association of government elements and parts of top-level industry and finance that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process." Intelligence agencies such as the CIA have been accused by elements of the Donald Trump administration of attempting to thwart its policy goals. Writing for The New York Times, the analyst Issandr El Amani warned against the "growing discord between a president and his bureaucratic rank-and-file", while analysts of the column The Interpreter wrote:
