Can We Agree?

[Tracy Riddle]

I define "national security state" as the intelligence/police/military agencies, federal, state and local, and the private and public institutions linked to them (defense contractors, private security companies, etc.) This would also include the privatized/corrupted/criminal groups (the Iran-Contra "enterprise," Gladio, Team B, etc.) Of course, these would be further linked to the big banks, elite families, international finance. But now we are getting into Drago's argument about facilitators and so on.