Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To learn more about the series, click here.

Counterintelligence is a hush-hush business that’s seldom discussed publicly, but there are few lines of work more vital to our national security. Blunting foreign espionage, the rampant theft of America’s defense and trade secrets, above all, represents an urgent mission for our intelligence community.