First of all Clinton had erected a wall between the FBI and the CIA rendering a very weak intelligence community. That weakness lead to 9-11.
Bush’s answer, as always, was more government, another layer of bureaucracy over the FBI and the CIA. That is no answer.
The answer was to remove the Clinton barriers and streamline our intelligence community and make it lean, and mean, and agile. What we have now is a bloated, wasteful bureaucratic blob.
Do you realize how many security departments the feds have now?
- the National Security Council (NSC) and a National Security Advisor
- the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a useless layer over the FBI and the CIA
- the hideous National Security Agency
How much freaking “security” does this mostly unconstitutional and paranoid federal government need? It’s beginning to look like a Nazi regime.
The constitutional job of the federal government is to protect the freedom of American citizens which is constitutionally assigned basically to the military and the CIA for external threats, and the FBI and the courts for internal wrongdoing. But instead, this bloated, mostly unconstitutional federal government is now grown and structured to protect itself by the control and coercion of American citizens.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/dhs-warns-deep-fry-turkey-dangers-15009863
This is an official DHS video on the dangers of frying that thanksgiving turkey. Yes, this is from the organization Bush created to protect us after 9/11.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/counterfeit-items-putting-family-risk-31089105
Or who can ignore the work DHS does in protecting us from fake purses and makeup?
WORTH REPEATING
The constitutional job of the federal government is to protect the freedom of American citizens which is constitutionally assigned basically to the military and the CIA for external threats, and the FBI and the courts for internal wrongdoing.
But instead, this bloated, mostly unconstitutional federal government is now grown and structured to protect itself by the control and coercion of American citizens.