Advocacy & Analysis
Our analyses are authored by members of The Steady State, all of whom previously served as officers within the U.S. Intelligence Community. Each contributor brings professional experience in intelligence analysis, national security assessment, and strategic evaluation.
We apply established U.S. Intelligence Community analytic tradecraft to examine conditions inside the United States—using the same disciplined methods, standards, and rigor that guide intelligence assessments worldwide.
Amicus Brief, Brennan v Blanche
The Steady State’s interest in this case is that its members dedicated their professional lives to defending America’s democratic values and the rule of law at home, and promoting those values abroad, with extensive experience balancing homeland and national security imperatives against constitutional and legal frameworks that protect individual rights. Many of amicus’ members spent their careers confronting, reporting on and studying the rise of authoritarian governments across the globe—in regimes that misuse intelligence, internal security and military services and paramilitary militias to consolidate a political leader’s power by suppressing lawful dissent and violating laws.