[Rockingham]

You have a point, but less than you might think. I expect that a second Trump administration will produce a house-cleaning of the intel agencies and a new era of genuine Congressional oversight. More fundamentally, your criticism as to cost does not get to the heart of the issue, which would require a full audit of intel agency performance, with unlimited access to documents and personnel.

[mass55th]

"I expect that a second Trump administration will produce a house-cleaning of the intel agencies and a new era of genuine Congressional oversight"

That's a nice thought, but there are no guarantees in life as we found out in 2020. I'm afraid I don't have much faith in a system that allowed a Federal election to be stolen in front of everyone's eyes. Gore tried to steal the 2000 election, and it fell to the Supreme Court to decide who our President was going to be a month later. There had been rampant fraud in Democrat-controlled Florida counties for years, and after 2000, Republicans acted as if nothing had happened, and sat on their hands the next 20 years. They are as much to blame for 2020 as the Democrats. Just know, that a government that will steal an election to get rid of a President, is the same government that will murder a President or President-elect if they can't get rid of him any other way.