Why do we need ANOTHER agency or group?
We currently have 77 law enforcement/security/intelligence agencies. Which one isn’t doing its job that another needs to be created?
What we need is consolidation: one for law enforcement (FBI), one for intelligence (CIA) and a security agency to bridge the 2 others (NSA); after that, everything is redundant and wasteful of precious funds and resources, not to mention the fact that they get in each others’ way.
I used to think that way too, but my experiences in the early 1980s changed my view. Without competing views about some very important intelligence issues of the time (e.g., the burden of the Soviet military on the Soviet economy), the truth may not have ever reached those who could act on it. Some consolidation is obviously required, with 77 different intel gathering units at present. But we only had the CIA bureaucrats giving “official” intelligence analysis to the President in 1982, the administration may have seriously misread the sorry state of our Cold War adversary.