You are attributing a lot more deviousness and strategic boldness to the so-called deep state than the US government is organizationally capable of. The CIA may have tried a few things like this in banana republics but there’s just no way anybody could pull it off domestically.
This is a good point, that much of the data we have comes from leaked operations in South America (e.g. the Church Hearings), and CIA operations are probably much easier there than on American soil.
However, there are also different kinds of systems pointed inward which look more like normal power games e.g. FBI informants, or lobbyists forming complex agreements/arrangements (like how their lawyer counterparts develop clever value-handshake-like agreements/arrangements to settle out-of-court). It shouldn’t be surprising that domestic ops are more complicated and look like ordinary domestic power plays (possibly occasionally augmented by advanced technology).
The profit motive alone could motivate Microsoft execs to leverage their access to advanced technology to get a better outcome for Microsoft. I was pretty surprised by the possibility that silicon valley VCs alone could potentially set up sophisticated operations e.g. using pre-established connections to journalists to leak false information or access to large tech companies with manipulation capabilities (e.g. Andreessen Horowitz’s access to Facebook’s manipulation research).
You are attributing a lot more deviousness and strategic boldness to the so-called deep state than the US government is organizationally capable of. The CIA may have tried a few things like this in banana republics but there’s just no way anybody could pull it off domestically.
This is a good point, that much of the data we have comes from leaked operations in South America (e.g. the Church Hearings), and CIA operations are probably much easier there than on American soil.
However, there are also different kinds of systems pointed inward which look more like normal power games e.g. FBI informants, or lobbyists forming complex agreements/arrangements (like how their lawyer counterparts develop clever value-handshake-like agreements/arrangements to settle out-of-court). It shouldn’t be surprising that domestic ops are more complicated and look like ordinary domestic power plays (possibly occasionally augmented by advanced technology).
The profit motive alone could motivate Microsoft execs to leverage their access to advanced technology to get a better outcome for Microsoft. I was pretty surprised by the possibility that silicon valley VCs alone could potentially set up sophisticated operations e.g. using pre-established connections to journalists to leak false information or access to large tech companies with manipulation capabilities (e.g. Andreessen Horowitz’s access to Facebook’s manipulation research).