There was a time in my life that I would believe having national secrets was a good thing. Obviously, I was curious about the secrets but the need for safety and national security outweighed my curiosity. Now I have a different view. Deep staters are protecting their asses because of decisions wrongly made. It is their safety from federal want-to-pound-you-in-the-butt prison that they are concerned. Their point of view is they are so elite that if anything happened to them that national security would be threatened.
The alternative is transparency with few select national secrets, e.g., weapon systems. I am not going to write a definitive list, but it would be short. There needs to be a price to being part of the deep state. Hopefully that price is too great and that eliminates the deep state.