In light of the IC abetting Epstein crimes Darryl Cooper with an X post to fix the problem

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The FBI and CIA must be abolished, and their necessary functions should be distributed to other agencies. Such powerful, secretive institutions must have the implicit trust of the people, or else our political culture is irreparably corrupted by endemic suspicion.

Reorganizing the functions of the FBI would be relatively easy, but the CIA would put up a fight. The only way to rein in the CIA is to lock in support from the DoD. The Pentagon has shouldered the blame for one catastrophe after another because of CIA operations gone bad. For example, the DoD was resistant to Obama’s CIA-led war against the Assad regime from the start. Bob Gates resigned as SECDEF because of it. He was replaced by CIA chief Leon Panetta, who was charged w/keeping the DoD in line as new CIA chief David Patreus led the dirty war in Syria. For years, DoD personnel were forced to arm and train the very jihadists who’d been killing their friends in Iraq. When Russia and Iran spoiled the party, anonymously-sourced (CIA-planted) editorials began appearing in the corporate press demanding that Obama order the US military to salvage the CIA’s clandestine war. The DoD had no intention of doing that. DoD personnel charged with training jihadists in Jordan were already in near-mutiny over it, and DoD forces steadfastly remained in the northeast, working with the Kurds against ISIS and simply refusing to aid the international jihad against Damascus. In at least one instance, DoD-backed forces engaged in combat w/CIA-backed jihadist militias. When CIA clandestine operations go sideways, they always run to the Pentagon to bail them out. US military personnel are the ones killed, and they are the ones blamed when the cleanup proves impossible.

There are plenty at the Pentagon who resent this and would gladly support a permanent solution. Turn the CIA into an office full of desk-bound dweebs reading foreign newspapers and NSA intercepts, and providing reports to the President. Move *all* of CIA’s operational functions to the Defense Intelligence Agency, where it will be led by uniformed personnel w/better understanding of their obligations to the American people, and who will more carefully consider the consequences of bad intelligence and clandestine operations, since they are the ones who will have to deal with them. CIA has spied US politicians, framed them for crimes, smeared them in the press, interfered in elections, and any politician that might move against CIA knows they’ll go even further. Full support from the Pentagon is necessary if the CIA is to be brought under control, because it’s the only institution w/the weight to overcome the CIA’s inevitable retaliation.

Even if you are a defender of FBI & CIA, you should agree that institutions w/their power and culture of secrecy can only exist with the implicit trust of the people, and that, with their actions from MKULTRA to COINTELPRO, from Watergate to RussiaGate, they have lost the trust of nearly everyone. Breaking them apart would be a good start to a long process of rebuilding trust.

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