Even if you get rid of it, something has to replace at least most of its functions. Those managing such an agency would have the exact same temptations as the most recent batch, and I don’t hold out much hope that they’ll be any better.
No, the problem isn’t the particular agencies, bureaus or departments - it’s with the entire government. Government as a whole has gotten too big and too powerful. There’s simply too much money and power flowing out of DC for it not to attract literally tens of billions per year in influence-peddling of one kind or another. This is the core of corruption - eliminate the government controlling $4 trillion/year, dial it back to 1/5 of that or less, and you will automatically have far less corruption, because it won’t pay as much.
Of course, I do think that there needs to be a government reform bill put in the hopper in one House or another, and made to pass in a form that metes out positively draconian penalties for being a corrupt government official - and I’d put harsher penalties on abuse of power than upon merely lining one’s pockets.
I’m not holding my breath waiting for either an 80% reduction of the size of government or a draconian reform bill, but that doesn’t make both of those things absolutely necessary to restore our Republic.
There is much we can agree on.
I would agree that cuts need to be far deeper that just the FBI. I would argue that they are the pitbull defending the deep state, so cutting out their money artery would help accomplish that objective.
I would agree that there may be some functions useful that they perform. I would argue the current FBI is rotten to the core and cannot be fixed. We need to eliminate the Varangian guard, not reform it. Maybe something can be built better in the future.
All fantasies aside, this republic has been dead for more than one hundred years, and we are just hearing the groaning of the visible timbers under the strain of the outside storm just before it shatters.
If we are lucky only millions will die.