The FBI needs to be dissolved.
I have been telling people that for years. It is beyond saving. It needs to be abolished and if it is decided federal police is something we need a new agency can be stood up.
Transparency in government. It is technologically possible for “everyone” to be granted “browse” ability to virtually all electronic government data.
Of course, Insert, Update, Delete power would still be very limited. Of course, certain national security files and personal privacy files would need to be protected.
But a Tea Party Group hassled by the IRS, or a falsely accused individual could waive all privacy protections and thus force “browse” access to all their data.
This is a step beyond FOIA. FOIA costs taxpayers money for all the government lawyers and staff to fulfill the FOIA requests. There would be little need for FOIA if everybody had browse access.
Private email server? No problem from a transparency perspective. Just require that a cc be sent automatically to the government server for everything on the private server.
National Security? Many things labeled National Security are not national security ... The enemy already knows the data that is hid. Most data hid for National Security purposes is hid to avoid the embarrassment (and illegal activity) of our own bureaucrats.
At the least it needs a good house cleaning from the top down !