I’m sure ‘intelligence services’ in Russia feel they’re smarter than the Russian people too.
All hellholes share some of the same stupid totalitarian ideas.
The solution? Cut these folks by about 90%. One look at the world before Trump was elected tells the story - they’re not worth crap.
We allowed the entire Patriot Act to pass. In return, the IC was supposed to protect our rights from terrorists and hostile foreign powers. But when the foreign snakes showed up, they saw that “our” deep state had already taken our rights away!