The Intelligence Community Needs To Be Dismantled

John Daniel Davison, The Federalist

The conspiracy that these documents reveal should lead to a thorough reform of our

intelligence agencies — not for the sake of political retribution, but for the survival of our republic. Simply put, our intelligence agencies as currently constituted are incompatible with republican self-government and the rule of law. They now function here in America much as they have functioned abroad for decades: as coup machines, undermining national sovereignty and imposing their will over and against the will of the electorate.