>>Police agencies are not set up to take action on crimes that might be committed. They react to crimes.
Obviously, they can’t arrest people for thinking about committing a crime. But the FBI is unique in that it is not just a LE organization. It is also the premier crime data collection and behavioral profiling organization in America. It isn’t their job to “take action” prior to a crime, but it is their job to analyze and understand the full nature of crimes that are repeated in this country. If some Analyst is in DC saying, “Wow. My trends predicted a month ago that Cruz would do this! This is gonna look great on my evaluation!”, then we have a problem. Likewise, if they can’t make connections that the average FReeper has already made, then we have a bigger problem.
If the FBI is just a typical cop shop, then they need to be disbanded and their powers given back to state and local LE.
We only see when the FBI falls on its face. If they, for example, seized a nuclear weapon being smuggled in, or “turned” a terrorist agent, we would never (hopefully) hear about it. If there is e problem, I am confident Trump will handle it.