CIA

When WW 2 started the government realized it needed to have spies around the world to collect data to help fight against the enemies and it established the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). During the war this grew into a formidable operation. At the end of the war Truman ended the OSS saying there was too much power in the hands of unelected people. Within two years the Soviet Union became a threat and Truman set aside his feeling about bureaucrats and formed the CIA. Today the US intelligence community is made up of 18 organizations that work to analyze, evaluate and disseminate information and they employ over 100,000 people with budget of $100 billion dollars. Add to this the 70 years that J Edgar Hoover collected information secretly on millions of citizens. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer showed an understanding of the power in these agencies when he said, "Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you". These groups can work outside the law and when congress tries to oversee what they are doing, they just respond by saying it is national security work so we cannot discuss anything we are doing. This is only one part of the deep state which includes people in leadership positions and many government agencies. These unnamed un elected bureaucrats are running the country and the congress thinks they are in control.