Steven Cash authored an op-ed, "Why We Need a 'Deep State',"
published by The Hill. In his piece, Cash asserts the
existence of the "Steady State" within the Intelligence
Community, which includes the Central Intelligence Agency, the
National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigations,
among others, and indicates it is "perhaps among the most
important of the 'sources and methods' used in intelligence
work."
"Our Intelligence Officers, by training and culture, are
not loyal to a president or a party, but to the Constitution and
law. They are institutionally neutral, and the Intelligence
Community has developed an array of institutional 'methods'
to support that neutrality," writes Cash, an opinion
contributor to The Hill. He continues, "The sum total
of these methods is an Intelligence Community that is not the tool
of president or party. It cares little about polls and politics. It
is a profession that values law and truth."
