Super Intelligence Agencies We Don't Need

What is it about intelligence gathering agencies that make them so important that they do not have to answer to anyone?

I've always thought that in a democracy like ours, all agencies were accountable to congress. Apparently I thought wrong.

This nation is "intelligence" dumb. We don't have any idea what is going on amongst our so-called "intelligence" groups. There's the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Army Intelligence Agency, Naval Intelligence Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Treasury Department's Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and who knows what other intelligence gathering agencies.

Why so many different agencies?

An Indianapolis native wrote a book entitled "Crimes of the Patriots" which hints that the CIA took part in drug deals involving extremely large sums of money. The CIA funnels money in and out of foreign bank accounts to cover covert operations. Yet they report to no one. Not even congress knows the extent of the CIA's involvement in manipulating foreign governments.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is supposed to be an agency that enforces only federal laws. If so, what are they doing at the Freemen's ranch in Montana? And what were they doing at Waco and Ruby Ridge? Unless the State of Montana had requested their assistance, they had no business in Montana. The only reason they could possibly have for being there is if federal laws have been broken, or if local authorities called them in.

Army and Navy Intelligence agencies are supposed to investigate crimes committed by Army and Navy personnel. Since the armed forces are under the command of the President of the United States, it seems to me that the FBI should be the ones investigating any crimes committed by military personnel. Who needs other agencies?

These ultra-secret "intelligence" agencies have outlived their usefulness. Bureaucracies all, they perpetuate their own existence and waste taxpayers money.

Since World War I, starting with the OSS, "spy" agencies have grown to octopus like monsters, setting up internal "secret" groups within their own agencies, reporting to no-one and responsible for nothing. Their tentacles of corruption and power reach into every country in the world.

Can we afford to spy on the world forever?

The NSA's operations cost nearly $1 million an hour, $8 billion a year, according to an article in The Baltimore Sun, reprinted by The Evansville Courier. NSA's ultra secret operations provide what Noel C. Koch, a top Pentagon official during the Reagan years, described as "an illusion of competence." Koch said that he often found public sources of information more useful than the tons of data provided by the NSA.

From hiring Mafia assassins to smuggling dope in the body cavities of dead GI's returned from Viet Nam, rumors (some based on facts) abound regarding the CIA's activities.

I think it is time we dismantled the CIA and the NSA, combine the duties of ATF, INS, FBI, SS, and the so called military intelligence agencies, into one group. Call them the United States Police, call them whatever you want, but make them report to congress.

Give them a budget and make them stick to it.

Americans are tired of supporting intelligence agencies that are helping one-world liberals destroy the liberties we enjoy while catering to the heads of foreign governments, living above the law and on the payroll of American taxpayers.