Robert Barnes earlier amplified upon who is the deep state:

“The essential players know their roles: the national security division of the Department of Justice; their allies in the counterintelligence division (COINTELPRO) and on the 7th Floor of the properly named J. Edgar Hoover Building; the supplicants on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act courts appointed by Deep State dupe Justice Roberts; the political appointees at the CIA and NSA; their friends in the key embassies and their allies in the Five Eyes of foreign intelligence; their rubes in the press; their friends in the think tanks; their pals at the Pentagon; and their grey space operators amidst the vendors, contractors, affiliates, informants, infiltrators, and instigators on the government payroll but with spy-like pseudonyms for their spookish behavior.”

The Best of Charles Burris