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On a Federal Level we need very few agencies.
FBI - Internal Law Enforcement
CIA - Overseas Intelligence Gathering
Secret Service - Internal Intelligence
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Disagree strongly!
The Secret Service, of necessity, has a very cozy relationship with the President to begin with.
Make them responsible for domestic intelligence and they’ll be investigating the Republicans when there’s a Democratic president and the Democrats when there’s a Republican president. They will become the president’s Praetorian Guard.
Further, you’ve totally isolated domestic intelligence gathering from domestic enforcement operations. The separation of these functions is a traditional weakness to begin with. These two activities need to be closely coordinated, not placed in separate agencies.
Actually, the concept of “enforcement operations” as an isolated activity removed from other government operations is itself flawed. Many specific enforcement activities are inextricably interwoven into other Governmental functions. Would you replace Park Rangers with FBI Agents?
I have to agree that’s there’s no compelling reason for the FBI, DEA, and ATF to be separate outfits. I kinda like it that way, though.
Whenever there’s a problem in the Federal Government, the solution invariably is a reorganization. It invariably fails, and is then replaced with another reorganization. Etc., etc.