Why This Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus?
http://mises.org/daily/4872
Highlights:
"The top-secret world the government created in response to the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has become so large, so
unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how
many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how
many agencies do the same work."
"Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating
redundancy and waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military
commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and
from terrorist networks."
"...the number of persons seeking to carry out a terrorist act of
substantial consequence against the United States and in a position to
do so cannot be more than a handful. If the number were greater, we
would have seen many more attacks or attempted attacks during the past
decade --- after all, the number of possible targets is virtually
unlimited, and the attackers might cause some form of damage in
countless ways. The most plausible reason why so few attacks or
attempted attacks have occurred is that very few persons have been
trying to carry them out. (I refer to genuine attempts, not to the
phony-baloney schemes planted in the minds of simpletons by government
undercover agents and then trumpeted to the heavens when the FBI
"captures" the unfortunate victims of the government's entrapment.)"
"What we see here is not really an "intelligence" or counterterrorism
operation at all. It's a rip-off, plain and simple, fed by irrational
fear and continually stoked by the government plunderers who are
exercising the power and raking in the booty to "fight terrorism.""
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