Episode 6 - National Security Deep State - Prof. Michael J. Glennon
Professor Michael J. Glennon is a longtime professor of constitutional and international law at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. In 2016, he published National Security and Double Government (available here), in which he challenged the idea that U.S. security policy is still forged by the president and Congress, arguing instead that our policy comes—or came—from the several hundred unelected officials at the top of the various military, intelligence, diplomatic, and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for protecting the nation—in other words, from the national security Deep State. The book was based on decades of scholarly inquiry, but also on personal experience—Professor Glennon began his career as counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1970s; he was there when Idaho’s liberal firebrand, Senator Frank Church, led his investigation into the secret dealings of the CIA, NSA, and FBI.
The dynamic has changed since President Trump entered the political arena. He has challenged the security directorate more and dramatically more openly than any of his predecessors, and there is no guarantee this ends well. Professor Glennon and I spoke about that and much more: about the concept of "double government," drawbacks in the old way of doing things, risks in the new, and where we go from here.
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