By: Margaret Henoch
The Steady State National Security veterans support an investigation of the events of January 6, 2021.
The Republican minority defeated the bipartisan bill (which gave the GOP everything it asked for) to investigate the attempted coup at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. …
By: Brigham Bechtel
Histories of America’s actions in Afghanistan will be written for years to come, but members of the Steady State are focused on the human cost being tallied in the present while supporting those members of the national security community in so many roles who answered the nation’s…
By: Margaret Henoch
Every effective autocrat needs an equally effective propaganda arm that convinces the citizenry to believe the rantings of the autocrat rather than rely on their own eyes, ears, and brains. …
Former Deputy Staff Director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Steady State member Melvin Dubee argues that the 2020 election and the events thereafter serve as a cautionary tale for what could come next in 2024 and beyond if we fail to take swift action to restore our…
Donald Trump has often used his constitutional pardon power as a tool to right what he considers to be personal wrongs, and his potential pardon of NSA spy Edward Snowden is no exception. You may remember Snowden as a former government IT contractor who stole more than 1.5 million documents…
My mother, aged 92, and I went to Arlington Cemetery to visit my father’s grave on Saturday. My dad served in the US Army as an infantry soldier in Europe and, in December 1944, was wounded in an artillery attack that killed a friend fighting next to him. Dad’s wound…
A law school friend asked me to write a shareable post about why, as a lifelong Republican and former Trump Administration appointee, I am voting against him. Here goes.
I’m 47, so when I think of a what a president of the United States should do and ought to be…
The current political environment and the associated failures of the DoD and IC leadership sparked an unprecedented clarion call from the highest ranks of the National Security Community. Many distinguished leaders publicly highlighted the dangers presented by a sycophantic ODNI, National Security Advisor, CIA, SECDEF, Secretary of State and even…
Reading President Trump is a little akin to comprehending the nature of a celestial body by witnessing the effects it or the unseen black hole driving it has on its surroundings, rather than seeing and fully appreciating the qualities of the thing itself. The less than complete grip we have…
Explanatory Note: The Steady State was founded because former senior members of the U.S. national security community see Donald Trump as a danger to the democracy of this country. The threat he poses to our democracy intensifies every day of this election cycle.
We have seen autocrats in other countries…
