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.

In the United States there is no “Deep State” in the sense that the term was originally used. The concept of a deep state came from secret authoritarian networks that operated inside the Turkish government during the 1990’s. The deep state networks involved the military, the intelligence services, the police and organized crime.