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The Deep State Audiobook Summary

Former Congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz explains how we ended up with a politicized federal bureaucracy that actively works to promote the Democrat party agenda and undermine Donald Trump.

The liberal media loves to characterize the Obama years as free of scandal. They pretend this is true because virtually every office in the executive branch worked to withhold evidence of wrongdoing, silence witness testimony, destroy federal records, classify embarrassing information, and retaliate against truth tellers. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, freely promoting the illusion that everything he does is the new Watergate.

Sometimes even conservatives portray the Deep State as nothing more than dumb inefficient bureaucracy. In fact, it’s the opposite; the Deep State is intentional, unconstitutional, and organized.

In Deep State, Jason Chaffetz reveals an entrenched leadership within the civil service that resists exposure, accountability, and responsibility. At the highest levels, they fight back, outlast, and work the system for their own advantage. And they certainly don’t like disruptive forces such as Donald Trump.

As Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Chaffetz was the tip of the spear challenging the Deep State and trying to hold them accountable. He and his colleagues took on the powerful forces at the IRS, the EPA, the DOJ, the Department of State, and more. The deeper he dove in, the more shocking he found the brazen approach by the power brokers. The balance of power has shifted. The Deep State has gotten used to operating anonymously and without consequence. This is a problem bigger than we can even imagine and getting worse. Unless we do something dramatic to wrest back control, we risk losing the ability to successfully challenge wrongdoing by the most powerful bureaucracy in the world.

In Deep State, Chaffetz highlights the Deep State’s tactics, illuminates the problems, and offers a way to fight back and win. It is important to expose the stories, but if the American People are going to win, Congress is going to have to do things differently. This book helps the concerned citizen understand what must be done–so they can demand real change.

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The Deep State Audiobook Narrator

Jason Chaffetz is the narrator of The Deep State audiobook that was written by Jason Chaffetz

Jason Chaffetz is an American politician and Fox News contributor. He was elected as a U.S. Representative from Utah in 2008 after spending 16 years in the local business community. When he left Congress in 2017, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

About the Author(s) of The Deep State

Jason Chaffetz is the author of The Deep State

The Deep State Full Details

Narrator Jason Chaffetz
Length 7 hours 36 minutes
Author Jason Chaffetz
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date September 18, 2018
ISBN 9780062864581

Subjects

The publisher of the The Deep State is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is American Government, National, Political Science

Additional info

The publisher of the The Deep State is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062864581.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Paul

September 17, 2018

This book was very interesting. It showed the corruption of government especially under the Obama administration. I always thought Obama was the worst president ever. We need more businessmen like President Trump running the government instead of dirty career politicians. A limit should be placed on the number of years a politician can serve.

Wanda

February 17, 2019

Jason Chaffetz was the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee and was in charge of challenging the Deep State and trying to hold them accountable. When Trump won the election of 2016, Chaffetz was hopeful things would change and people who previously escaped prosecution for their crimes would finally be charged or, at least, investigated. His hopes were not to be when so many of the Obama holdovers blocked the President at every turn. Chaffetz, disillusioned, decided it was time to quit politics. I had no doubts that the Deep State existed but this book gave me numerous examples which are backed up with first hand knowledge and statistics. Any one of the subjects presented in this book could constitute a book in itself but Chaffetz breaks it down well and gives the reader the highlights (or rather, lowlights) of a government that is clearly out of control. He lists numerous incidents of financial waste and how taxpayers are footing the bill for feckless government employees. He reminds of the many scandals that occurred during the Obama Presidency that are still not fully investigated and how Jeff Sessions refused to do so. Most importantly, or at least most currently, he tells how the Deep State has tried since day one to undermine and take down our current President. The reasons the Deep State are so against the wall are many but the fact that with illegal immigrants you need bigger government is foremost. Also, the high tech companies who support the Deep State are some of the biggest benefactors of illegal immigration.These companies "rent" workers from other countries, giving them H1B status, and then pay them a fraction of what they would pay Americans. One worker was making $130,000 per year and was forced go train a H1B worker who was then paid $30,000 per year. The American was told he either trained him or he would lose his severance pay. This is a great book by a guy who was on the front lines and will, hopefully, be an eye opener for all who dare to read.

richard aud

September 19, 2018

Great insight into a function of a dysfunctional government.Confirms my impressions of the existence of the deep state and the group's that continue to take advantage of true American citizens.

Robin

September 19, 2018

Sincere and scary. I used the audio version and Mr. Chaffetz does a good job conveying information.

Alan

January 03, 2019

Chaffetz’s book expertly explains and describes almost everything that is wrong with our government today. The corrupt and greedy politicians and bureaucrats who make up the Deep State are exposed. The American people must aggressively press forward to drain the swamp as the DS will always fight to preserve itself. Great book.

Ronald

February 06, 2019

A thoughtful review of the state of the United States form of government.

Chris

November 14, 2018

Former Congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz explains how we ended up with a politicized federal bureaucracy that actively works to promote the Democrat party agenda and undermine Donald Trump.The liberal media loves to characterize the Obama years as free of scandal. They pretend this is true because virtually every office in the executive branch worked to withhold evidence of wrongdoing, silence witness testimony, destroy federal records, classify embarrassing information, and retaliate against truth tellers. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, freely promoting the illusion that everything he does is the new Watergate.Sometimes even conservatives portray the Deep State as nothing more than dumb inefficient bureaucracy. In fact, it's the opposite; the Deep State is intentional, unconstitutional, and organized.In Deep State, Jason Chaffetz reveals an entrenched leadership within the civil service that resists exposure, accountability, and responsibility. At the highest levels, they fight back, outlast, and work the system for their own advantage. And they certainly don't like disruptive forces such as Donald Trump.As Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Chaffetz was the tip of the spear challenging the Deep State and trying to hold them accountable. He and his colleagues took on the powerful forces at the IRS, the EPA, the DOJ, the Department of State, and more. The deeper he dove in, the more shocking he found the brazen approach by the power brokers. The balance of power has shifted. The Deep State has gotten used to operating anonymously and without consequence. This is a problem bigger than we can even imagine and getting worse. Unless we do something dramatic to wrest back control, we risk losing the ability to successfully challenge wrongdoing by the most powerful bureaucracy in the world.In Deep State, Chaffetz highlights the Deep State's tactics, illuminates the problems, and offers a way to fight back and win. It is important to expose the stories, but if the American People are going to win, Congress is going to have to do things differently. This book helps the concerned citizen understand what must be done—so they can demand real change.

Roger Yacobucci

September 23, 2018

I thought the book was good and provided Jason's personal prospective on dealing with the deep state. He provides examples of how the deep state circumvents and protects itself from the power of the 3 branches of government. He also shows how we have lost control of a monster that is getting bigger, stronger, and less controllable with time. And even though he focuses on the federal level of government the same deep state tactics are obvious at the state and local levels of as well. Lincoln believed in a … government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. However we now have two governments and the elected one is perishing while the deep state one is thriving. The elected one represents the wishes and power of the people while the deep state one represents the wishes and power of itself.

Konrad

October 20, 2018

Peter Strzok said "we'll stop him". After reading the book, you will know who we is.In this book, Congressman and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz shows that the deep state was alive and running when he was first elected in 2008 during the Obama administration and has intensified its efforts under the Trump administration. The book starts a bit slow, but give it a chance. Chaffetz explains the mechanisms that the deep state uses to control what Congress gets to see, or better yet completely bypass oversight. Not sure if the deep state really exists? Read the book. It will leave you wondering if your elected representatives really run the show.

Ann

December 27, 2018

Written by someone with the knowledge to analyze the political scene this is a great look into the bureaucracy and politics of the government and the news media. He analyzes the structure and heads of many of the government agency's that seem to have their own agenda. Mr. Chaffetz has a good understanding of the politics of Washington DC and points out a lot of misunderstandings the news presents about the Obama administration. Worth your time to read and discuss. I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Walt1988

October 12, 2019

Great read about the corruption in Washington during to the deep state.

David

March 10, 2021

Illuminating and scary.

Nathan

July 07, 2020

To be sure, Congress is not the most sympathetic of our national institutions, and the author speaks as one of the people involved in the Republican-led House from 2010-2016 who sought to hold Obama's corrupt administration to standards and bring to light what bureaucrats were seeking to hide.  As far as readers go, I am probably part of the target audience that this author is aiming at, given a high degree of interest in transparency and a low tolerance for those who would seek to hide what the government is doing under the idea that unelected and unaccountable elites know better than I do about what is good for me.  A book like this not only demonstrates the existence of the Deep State but also points out why it has become such a problem in the contemporary world and the level of effort it takes to fight against it, through bringing to light its behavior and forcing it out of the shadows into the open.  By and large this is a book I can wholeheartedly endorse, although it does say some rather unpleasant things about the state of the executive branch and the bureaucracy in contemporary America.This book is a bit more than 100 pages long and is divided into 13 chapters.  The author begins with an introduction and then a discussion of Elizabeth Warren's dream for an unaccountable government bureaucracy in the CFPB (1).  He then asks what it is that the bureaucrats do not want Congress (and thus the American people) to see (2) before tackling the problems of money and sex in the EPA (3) and the struggle of the deep state to fight back against people like the author who want to bring its dark deeds into the light (4).  The author discusses the deep state war on whistleblowers (5), their contempt of (6), and lies to (7) Congress, as well as the author's face-to-face experiences with denizens of the deep state (8).  After this the author discusses the mistaken belief by the Deep State that people cannot handle the truth (9) as well as their flouting of subpoenas with impunity (10).  Finally, the author closes with a discussion of the nightmare of the Deep State (11), some thoughts on the wall (12), and a look at how the deep state can be tamed (13), after which there is an epilogue, acknowledgements, and an index.There are those people who will see a book like this and pooh pooh the idea that the deep state exists at all.  Yet over the course of the last few years it has become increasingly obvious that not only does such a thing exist but that it wants very much for its deeds not to be brought to the light.  Indeed, we can see the roots of the Deep State going back to the desire for a civil service that was no longer accountable to political leaders and to the growth of public sector unions seeking to solidify the claim of corrupt bureaucrats to hold their positions regardless of the wicked things that they do that would never be tolerated in private companies.  The author has the receipts on the sort of corrupt behavior that has been done in government in the protection of pornographers and those who sexually harass and abuse their coworkers and conspire to keep Americans unsafe in foreign countries who happen to be working in dangerous places.  The author appears to have used his power for the good in drawing attention to things that would otherwise be ignored, and if I do not tend to like Congress, I think this book gives us a reason to appreciate the author's attempts to wrestle with the Deep State and its contempt for oversight.

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