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我們把財政部也算入深層政府，因為它對資金流動有管轄權，其廣泛的官僚機構致力於執行國際經濟制裁，以及它與華爾街有機地共生（正如我們看到的，財政部已悄然成為一種新形式的國家安全行動中心，其部分日常工作外包給美國金融機構，幾乎與五角大樓將戰區軍隊的後勤外包給承包商的方式相同）。所有這些機構都由總統行政辦公室通過國家安全委員會進行協調。

司法部門的某些關鍵領域屬於深層政府，例如外國情報監視法院【the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court】（由聯邦最高法院首席法官任命），其行動甚至對大多數國會議員來說都是神秘的。這裡還包括少數重要的聯邦審判法院，例如弗吉尼亞東區法院和曼哈頓南區法院，在那裡進行敏感的國家安全案件的訴訟。

最後的政府組成部分（可能是憲法規定的正式政府部門中的最後一部分）是一個由國會領導層和一些（但不是全部）國防和情報委員會成員組成的小部分國會。國會的其他成員，通常是少數派和黨派人士，大多只是間斷性地了解深層政府，必要時，他們常聽到的是其代表精心挑選的幾句話。

雖然政府可能對所有企業實體的願望非常關注，但這裡描述的這種政府綜合體通過金錢網絡、共同目標和名利與美國企業特定的且非常強大的元素更加密切地結合在一起。這些元素包括軍事工業綜合體、華爾街，以及——這對某些人來說可能聽起來令人驚訝——硅谷（一位前 NSA 內部人士告訴我，美國間諜機構完全依賴硅谷的技術、通信骨幹網和合作，硅谷企業甚至開始執行這些間諜機構的任務）。

深層政府不僅僅由政府機構組成。委婉地被稱為的私營企業是其運營的一個組成部分。在《華盛頓郵報》名為“美國絕密【Top Secret America】”的特別系列中，達納·普雷斯特 (Dana Priest) 和威廉·阿金 (William Arkin) 描述了私有的深層政府的範圍及其在 9/11襲擊後轉移的程度。美國現在有 854,000 名獲得絕密許可的合同人員——這個數字比獲得許可的政府文職雇員還要多。雖然他們在全國和世界各地工作，但他們集中在華府郊區及其周邊地區是毋庸置疑的：自 9/11 以來，已經建造或正在建造 33 個絕密情報設施。它們加起來占據了將近3個五角大樓的占地面積——約 1,700 萬平方英尺。情報界預算的 70% 用於支付與私營公司的合同。

政府和企業人員之間是高度滲透的。這些承包商越來越多地設定華府的政治和社會基調，就像他們設定國家的方向一樣；但是他們是悄悄地做這些事情的，他們的所作所為從沒有記錄在《國會記錄【Congressional Record】》或《聯邦登記錄【Federal Register】》中，他們很少到國會去聽證。

【英文原文】

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The Components of the Deep State

The Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies, plus key parts of the other branches whose roles give them membership.

The Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Justice Department are all part of the Deep State.

We also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its extensive bureaucracy devoted to enforcing international economic sanctions, and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street (as we shall see, the Treasury has quietly become the epicenter of a new form of national security operation, with some of its day-to-day execution outsourced to American financial institutions in almost the same way that the Pentagon has outsourced military logistics in war zones to contractors). All these agencies are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council.

Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (appointed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court), whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Manhattan, where sensitive proceedings in national security cases are conducted.

The final government component (and possibly last in precedence among the formal branches of government established by the Constitution) is a kind of rump Congress consisting of the congressional leadership and some (but not all) of the members of the Defense and Intelligence committees. The rest of Congress, normally so fractions and partisan, is mostly only intermittently aware of the Deep State and, when required, usually submits to a few well-chosen words from its emissaries.

While the government may be obsequiously attentive to the desires of all corporate entities, this governmental complex I have described is even more intimately connected by a web of money, mutual goals, and careerism to specific and very powerful elements of corporate America. These elements include the military-industrial complex, Wall Street, and - surprising as it may sound to some - Silicon Valley (one former NSA insider told me the spy agencies are completely dependent on Silicon Valley's technology, communications backbones, and cooperation to even begin perform their mission).

The Deep State does not consist only of government agencies. What is euphemistically called private enterprise is an integral part of its operations. In a special series in the《Washington Post》called "Top Secret America," Dana Priest and William Arkin described the scope of the privatized Deep State and the degree to which it has metastasized after the September 11 attacks. There are now 854,000 contract personnel with top-secret clearances - a number greater than that of cleared civilian employees of the government. While they work throughout the country and the world, their heavy concentration in and around the Washington suburbs is unmistakable: since 9/11, thirty-three facilities for top-secret intelligence have been built or are under construction. Combined, they occupy the floor space of almost three Pentagons - about 17 million square feet. Seventy percent of the intelligence community's budget goes to paying contracts with private-sector companies.

The membrane between government and industry personnel is highly permeable. These contractors increasingly set the political and social tone of Washington, just as they set the direction of the country, but they are doing it quietly, their doings unrecorded in the《Congressional Record》or the《Federal Register》, and they are rarely subject to congressional hearings.