The glory days of the CIA and the FBI are long past. Some of the elite in the Swamp would argue the perceived glory days of the past never existed, that the past days were days of white male dominated abuse against people of color, racism, imperialism, misogyny, and so on, and so on.
Only now that the halls of the old and new Headquarters building of the CIA are adorned (they might say liberated) with ideological virtue signaling (i.e., indoctrination) on alternative lifestyles and social justice themes is the CIA really what it was and is supposed to be. A similar thing could be said for the FBI by those in the wokeness business.
The belief and illogical thesis of these mockers, now the ones in charge of our institutions, including the CIA and FBI, was that if you fight communism, you create communism (Sound familiar? Sounds like the same intellectual naysayer talking point from the War on Terror era; if you fight Terrorism, you create Terrorism).
Currently these same naysayers shout about the Russian boogeyman as if they’re everywhere; behind every streetlamp, under every bed. Yes, the Russians are a problem and a danger, but their economy is less than 10 percent the size of ours. They have few resources to field a large-scale intelligence threat, much less military capability.
Now I don’t want to see a straw in the nostril of any Sea Turtle, but I’m far more concerned about deterring and preventing a mushroom cloud over an American City. Or any city of any country for that matter.
Yes, the glory days are gone alright for the CIA and FBI. Now that we know that significant elements of the leadership (and perhaps some rank and file) of the CIA and FBI were all in on Spygate and that Brennan and Comey lied and fabricated a fake Intelligence Community Assessment after President Trump won in November 2016, it’s clear.
Sadly, the key, existing Federal agencies, designated to forewarn and take action against threats to the United States are broken. Perhaps irretrievably. If you have any experience in construction, home repair, car restoration, etc., you know to re-build, there must be a sound foundation to start with.
Starve the Old, Feed the New
I’m not sure if it was Ronald Reagan or Rush Limbaugh (maybe both) who said it was nearly impossible to do away with any vestige of government, no matter now unnecessary, but at best, the rate of growth is the only thing that can restrained. Once bureaucracy is created, it just keeps growing.I’ve spent over 35 years in the national security apparatus in one form or another and rarely was I in a meeting where the answer was, we need less government. In all fairness, one of my last political appointees was notoriously frugal, but it was almost to the extreme of sparing no expense to save money, which in the end, still grew government.
Normally, the going in position to any government meeting was more. No matter what the question was, the answer was more. More government, more resources, more personnel, more authority. More, More, More. The bureaucrat learns quickly that shrinking anything endangers job security. I saw it over and over again. And anyone who questions this is suspect and clearly untrustworthy.
The creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) are in some ways examples of the Reagan/Limbaugh axiom. DHS and DNI were created by taking funding and authority from existing organizations. Unfortunately, 20 or so years later, their effectiveness is up for debate, and the organizations they were intended to lead, restrain, or supplant have continued to grow and, in the case of the CIA, still often act as if they do not have a higher headquarters, DNI or any other. So alas, how do we address this?
My suggestion is the creation of new organizations to sunset the CIA and the FBI and focus the new re-incarnations on lawful, core missions. We’ll call the new organizations, the “National Intelligence Agency” (NIA), and the “Federal Investigation Agency” (FIA).
The headquarters staff, the Intelligence Analysis Organizations, the climate change offices, and so on—all the corrupt overhead and support offices where the budding, future Eric Ciaramella’s plot their next Spygate conspiracy, stay behind.
Trustworthy, Focused US Government Organizations
Will this proposal be met with applause by those who’s God is Big Government? Of course not. But for the good and continuance of our incredible constitutional republic, a transformation like this is necessary.Change is hard, especially when there is so much vested interest by those who live off the largesse of plodding, ineffective Big Government that never delivers, only demands more resources, more time, and more of everything except accountability on behalf of the owners of the American Government, the American Citizen.
Most American Citizens want effectiveness, efficiency, and results. It’s time we gave this to the American people with two transformed entities to alert and safeguard America.