This is Part I of a three-part essay on America’s intelligence system. This first part deals with what it is and how it has failed. Part II will discuss the specific reasons for its failure. Part III will describe how it is morphing into an instrument of a police state and, given that we are currently stuck with a protection racket government, how we should cut the intelligence budget down to size. America’s intelligence system has grown into a multi-agency bureaucracy that has failed in its primary mission – to provide warnings of impending attacks on the United States or … Continue reading America’s Intelligence System: Part I – Bloated and Ineffective