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[–] SK63 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It'd be a really painful transition to just shut these agencies down. Yes, they clearly have corruption running through them both. But they also have SOME useful purpose in protecting the nation. We have CIA and FBI agents, sources and information that are vital to national security. The good stuff would need to be seamlessly transitioned to another agency like the NSA without interruption or we'd be at square one with lots of important ops. The transition, though, would threaten to take bad people into the NSA. It's better to go op by op, person by person, and figure out how to not throw out the baby with the bathwater. I have a feeling that's what the NSA is doing now.

Finally, I have to believe the NSA also has its bad apples. We just need to go through all the secret agencies - frankly all the Deep State - and purge those who think they can affect our politics unilaterally.