cocomaan Yes, but which political party has the will to take on these agencies? For instance, it’s remarkable how wrapped up Democrats are in FBI worship today considering that Maxine Waters once went after the CIA for running drugs into her district. There’s been a real party reversal. Once, the FBI and the CIA and the alphabet soup of intelligence agencies were the domain of Neo-conservatives like Hoover and Nixon. Now they’ve transformed into something else. I’ll never forget Tim Kaine, in the 2016 vice presidential debate, calling for an “Intelligence Surge”. It was when I realized something had changed.