Part 1: Bloated and Ineffective This is Part II of a three-part essay on America’s intelligence system. This first part dealt with what it is and how it has failed. Part II deals with 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 it down to size. The best explanation for the failure of American intelligence can be found in Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Democracy: The God That Failed. To paraphrase Dr. Hoppe’s … Continue reading America’s Intelligence System: Part II – Why It Has Failed