The "intelligence" agencies YOU refer to have planted news stories with a stable of compliant reporters and rigged US elections over the years. They assassinate leaders of other countries (read about Salvatore Allende), overthrow governments like the Ukraine, and murder human beings with drones. The drone pilots drink or take drugs to numb the dehumanizing thuggery they engage in - 13 year old kids blown up by Hellfire missiles classified as "combatants".  Those CIA drone pilots are no different from the Nazi SS camp guards that killed innocents. DHS and the CIA, the Patriot Act, pose the gravest danger to this country we have ever faced. They are good for spying on allied leaders and ordinary US and European citizens, but are completely worthless at figuring out about terrorist attacks. There is NOTHING the CUa, NSA, or DHS do that is legal, that the FBI cannot do better. Defund and disband them. We don't need a combined Gestspo and SS.