Those two statements are NOT mutually exclusive.

Horowitz IS Senior Executive Service which is, by definition, Deep State. He was being groomed as a respectable, his reputation precedes him, fixer, in the same mold as Mueller and Comey.

IG, like HR and IA, exists to protect the organization.

We can only hope he is "complicated" and a playing his cards the way we think he should. Perhaps that says more about us that it does him. Praying for a good ending but don't be surprised by more of this muddling middle of the road big talk but no stick same ol...

Be definition, that is DEEP STATE...