The Insider Threat

How the Deep State Undermines America from Within

Adam Lovinger

• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781641774321
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: 21st Century History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This stunning whistleblower account reveals how the Deep State weaponizes federal powers against its political enemies and explores the disastrous reality of the Obama Doctrine, which seeks to create a global balance of power by weakening American preeminence and strengthening America's foreign adversaries.

During his eight-year reign, Barack Obama transformed the U.S. national security, intelligence, and law enforcement bureaucracies as no other president in history has done, advancing a policy of U.S. diminishment that has undermined our global primacy to this day.

In The Insider Threat, Adam Lovinger draws on more than ten years of experience at the Pentagon to explain how the Obama administration orchestrated this coup.

Obama spent his first year in office persuading Americans that the U.S. should step back from its global leadership role to create a new world order based on "balance of power" politics. But what he never said out loud was that this meant Washington would transfer power to its enemies.When his 2009 worldwide "apology tour" proved a debacle, Obama changed tack—to subversion by bureaucratic fiat.

He spent the next eight years staging a stealth revolution inside America's most sensitive government agencies, using ideological infighters to replace America's strategic objectives with those of China, Russia, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In return, through a range of acts and omissions described in this book, America's adversaries helped Obama and Joe Biden win elections, wealth, and prestige.

Equal parts George Orwell and Franz Kafka, The Insider Threat exposes—for the first time—the secret playbook that Lovinger discovered on his U.S. Department of Defense computer. This file reveals how corrupt senior officials enrich their patrons at taxpayer expense, advance the interests of America's enemies, undermine core U.S. national interests from within, and make administrative reform impossible.

Even longtime Washington insiders will be shocked at the extent of lawlessness that now passes for normal in America's administrative state.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Discovering the Deep State
• Chapter 2: The Office of Net Assessment
• Chapter 3: The Obama Doctrine
• Chapter 4: Transformation from Within
• Chapter 5: A Nuclear Iran Would “More Fairly Rebalance American Influence”
• Chapter 6: Sabotaging the U.S.-Japan Alliance
• Chapter 7: Targeting a Presidential Transition Team
• Chapter 8: “Show Me the Man, and I Will Find You the Crime”
• Chapter 9: Walking Back from a Strategy of Primacy
• Chapter 10: The “Find a Justification to Fire Him” Sort of Investigation
• Chapter 11: A Treasonous Path
• Chapter 12: Adopting Russia’s Foreign Policy for America’s Own
• Chapter 13: The Net Assessment Dossier
• Chapter 14: Russian Disinformation Becomes a U.S. Intelligence Product
• Chapter 15: An Existential Threat to the Deep State
• Chapter 16: The Kill Shot
• Chapter 17: Devil’s Island
• Chapter 18: Discovering the Deep State Playbook
• Chapter 19: Lie
• Chapter 20: Leak
• Chapter 21: Investigate
• Chapter 22: The Deep State’s Justice Machine
• Chapter 23: Who Watches the Watchers?
• Chapter 24: Deep State End Game
• Chapter 25: A Warning from History
• Chapter 26: A Call to Action
• Exhibit A
• Exhibit B
• Notes