Do we have a "Deep State?"

Powerful, unaccountable, and secret--the Minotaur Veiled!  Usually the term appears in discussing Turkey or Egypt.  I don't buy everything in this piece--the idea is compelling but unfalsifiable--but it is worth reading and thinking about. 

http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/

At least the author Lofgren was a Hill staffer who had some opportunity to view this from the inside.