[mo]

The FBI has been constitutionally challenged since JE Hoover ran it.

The CIA long ago confused its foreign operational mandates and domestic prohibitions

thats just for starters.

placing a “sundowning” time on EVERY Federal agency institutionally helps gets rid of their bureaucratic and administrative baggage which ALWAYS evolves, given enough time, to protect pensions, salaries and retirement at the expense of virtually every other priority, including for most, their initial Congressional mandate

[little jeremiah]

Consider the FBI, or in truth, the entire fedgov like a house that needs remodelling.

Should it be remodelled, or burned to the ground?

Answser is obvious.

Without law enforcement, there is no human civilization.

Trump is remodelling the fedgov. Burning it down is what antifaz BurnLootMuder Demshevik revolutionaries want to do. So they can rebulid it in their way - Tyranny style.

[TXnMA]

"placing a “sundowning” time on EVERY Federal agency institutionally helps gets rid of their bureaucratic and administrative baggage which ALWAYS evolves, given enough time, to protect pensions, salaries and retirement at the expense of virtually every other priority, including for most, their initial Congressional mandate"

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I agree with everything you wrote -- BUT, how do we maintain the (proper) critical functions of those organizations while we "drain the swamp"?

I recommend you read this post of mine from another thread -- that begins to address rebuilding the FBI. That answer isn't complete -- but it begins to address the issues of "Cleansing and Rebuilding" the FBI, with which I'm somewhat familiar.

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Of course, major impediments to drastic "axe" action are Civil Service and union barriers to firing "deadwood"...
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When we've dumped swampcritter Wray, the top of the FBI will be pretty well "gutted" of swampcritters.

Next, we have to rebuild the functions --- but not by hiring more swampcritters "from within the ranks"-- as we did with Wray.

Any ideas?

TXnMA    
  

[ichabod1]

SO, since J. Edgar Hoover fOUNDED the damned institution you’re saying it’s been crooked since its inception.

The sad thing is, before governmental spy agencies it was all done privately.