The assets arnt people but methods in the case with the NSA.
And doing so would legit allow our adversaries to be untouchable because it takes decades to get methods in place, and once lost you can not get them back.
They arnt abive the constitution.
The amount if training I have to do because of the constitution is immense...
But the NSA is mandatory in protection of the US.
Without it the US will lose every war or battle we face
You are once again ignoring why people are upset with the IC, and just putting up the same boilerplate shit about foreign adversaries to try to paper over it and deflect criticism and blame from the IC for their part in why the US society is so fucked domestically.
And the IC is more than just the NSA, as you well know, and do I need to go get a list of the abuses committed by the CIA against US civies on US soil?
Do you understand just trying to dodge the subject of addressing IC abuses or US citizens doesn't help any of your arguments, and makes it look more like you want to ignore and dismiss that said abuses happened at all.
The fact is, at a certain point the 'foreign enemies are doing X' or 'if we try to fix abuses in the IC, we will lose our edge' reasoning begins to fall short agianst the abuses said reasoning has helped enable. You do not see people hating on the NRO or DIA much, because they do not engage in the same domestic abuses that the CIA and FBI have, nor the 'backdoor' privacy breaches the NSA does on a regular basis.
Abolishing the IC completely would be pointless and worse than useless; however continuing to try to shield the IC from the consequences of their domestic abuses only makes it so the US public has even less reason to trust our own IC. You also seem to have forgotten the numerous FISA court abuses that have been uncovered because of actions against Trump.
How many unjustified and un-Constitutional abuses of the domestic US citizenry is the current IC edge worth, Zach?
I'll defend the IC when they stop coming for Americans and American interests.
You defend them because you say they protect us from our enemies. What you are too blind to see, is that people are telling you that THEY are our enemies.
And they are. The FBI is attacking American conservatives amd protecting left wingers, while labeling parents who go to school board meetings as terrorists. the NSA is trying to destroy privacy and encryption and spies on the American people, and many other abuses have been pointed out.
Our intelligence communities ARE THE ENEMY. They're far more dangerous to us, and have caused far more harm, than any foreign adversary in the last couple decades.
Just in the kast few years They've taken part in collusion schemes to oust sitting presidents. They have helped to cook up or hide evidence that lead to the impeachment of a fucking president. They have taken part in arresting the leading political opposition to our current president. They have sat on and hidden evidence of the current president's own crimes to ensure he gets elected. They're eroding American freedom's and stepping on our throats while they orchestrate election interference to ensure the people they want end up in power.
We are under attack from these 3 letter agencies, they pose a way bigger risk than foreign adversaries, because they're actively harming our country and our democracy RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK, and your inability to recognize it is quite frustrating to everyone else who sees what is plainly obvious.
They've managed to plant their dictator in the president's seat and our entire system is collapsing.
I agree with pretty much all of this.
I do not think Zach wants to deal with the domestic implications of IC abuses and IC fuckery in domestic politics, and what it means for his job/the sort of organization he is part of.
He only talks about foreign threats, and ignores the domestic side of things, because he knows addressing the domestic side of the IC would mean admitting some people he takes orders from/works with are just as much enemies of the American public and Constitution as Russia or the CCP are, but with tons of power over the US that neither Russia or the CCP can manage via infiltration attempts.
The NRO or DIA are about the only intel groups these days who aren't hated by a lot of the public, on both sides, because they are rather more outwards facing and restricted in their domestic operations, compared to the other intel groups.