[Jim W N]

So you are saying we should not have a national intelligence discipline

Whatever gave you that idea?

I said, "The CIA and FBI pursue the constitutional mandate that the president take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed (U.S. Const., art. II, sec. 3). So, yes, the CIA and FBI are constitutional."

Before Bill Clinton screwed it all up, the FBI and the CIA coordinated their efforts between intelligence gathering and federal law enforcement. We need to reinstate that, get rid of the useless DHS and the dangerous NSA which Obama WITHOUT reasonable suspicion or probable cause, used mainly to spy on Right-Wing Americans.

The FBI and the CIA are reasonable means of ensuring security and enforcement within the U.S. IMO, the NSA is a Leftist government beginning to put the iron boot on the necks of American citizens. Get the FBI and CIA back to doing their jobs and nuke the NSA.

[Salvavida]

Excuse me sir. NSA is the organization that manages and executes the national intelligence discipline for SIGINT. Both FBI and CIA use it, and everyone else consumes the information derived from their platforms.

If your problem is with DHS, that's a whole different story. But to say the US is better off without SIGINT is utterly ridiculous, tantamount to saying, "We accept fighting blind-folded."

Now go back and read your response: You are pissed at accountability, and rightly you should be. But that is a voter and public policy issue.