The ONLY legitimate intelligence service is military intelligence.
The CIA should be gone.
The military should have its own intelligence sections.
They should report up to SecDef.
NOT directly to el Presidente.
Otherwise, the way things have ALWAYS been with CIA, we have an organization that is run amok.
CIA, to put it simply, has unfettered capability to create wars and revolutions.
It has NO accountability, ZERO oversight, because NO ONE can EVER get an honest answer from them about what they have going on.
It’s impossible because no one has independent access to anything inside CIA, everyone has to go through CIA to ask for internal CIA information, which allows CIA to filter what it provides access to.
Combine that with the fact that the leadership has always been hand-picked minions of elite finance, and you have corruption on the largest scale ever. The CIA is simply a tool for elite finance, masquerading as a legitimate agency.
Let's go a step further. The Department of State should become a much smaller agency within the Department of Defense. Perhaps one Ambassador per country (some nations have an ambassador represent them in more than one country), just enough staff to handle visas and related issues, and enough armed military personnel to secure the embassies and consulates.
If we're going to have an embassy or consulate in a place like Libya or Venezuela, there better be enough military stationed there to successfully launch a coup on a hostile government if attacked. Preferably, we have no diplomatic presence in regimes that are hostile to us. They're our enemies. Let them deal with our military if they decide to pick a fight.
The civil service aspect needs to be gone. If there isn't military experience, they should be disqualified from working for the State Department.
Let's also require every damn Ambassador to (a) have at least a B-2 proficiency in the language spoken in the country and (b) have extensive on-the-ground experience in that country before becoming ambassador.
The Ivy League sh#theads that infest the State Department work around the clock to undermine U.S. national security interests, spurning our allies, and performing Lewinskys on our enemies. It's time for that to end.