If everyone hasn’t figured out now that the “intelligence community” is hopelessly corrupt and sees itself as the governing body of the United States, they just aren’t paying attention.
Basically they’re the hit team for the Rat party, whose sole job it is to keep the gravy train going so that all of them can pad around in their socks in their plush offices and then head home to leafy, expensive suburbs.
Walking around DC and driving through the burbs there all you can think of is “so this is where the money goes”.
Feudalism resurrected.