The Soviet KGB was hardly about chasing down dissidents in the provinces - its main job was to watch the Party and government itself - making sure the party had full control, watching all high-level threats to the Party and Government, and ensuring that the apparatchiks all towed the party-line.
In that sense, the DOJ/FBI has morphed into America’s KGB.
We had better cut it off at the knees or it will become a disaster.
“become”?