Bloated, Broken, and Beyond Their Mandate: The Intelligence Community's Useless Arms Race
By Killian Yates
Originally published on the Fraud Frog blog
A Weapon with No War
The U.S. intelligence community is like a rusted-out battleship in a bathtub—massive, expensive, and doing absolutely nothing useful. We're dumping tens of billions every year into agencies whose primary exports seem to be overclassification, botched foreign policy, and illegally spying on their own citizens. It’s time to say what too many won’t: the intelligence apparatus is the modern-day nuclear weapon. Loud, overfunded, fundamentally useless, and designed more for fear than function.
Just like nukes, the intelligence community is supposed to be a deterrent. But who exactly are we deterring when the enemy is often fabricated to justify the budget? China? Russia? Terrorists? We’ve got 18 intelligence agencies, but no one stopped 9/11, Boston, Pulse, Vegas, Uvalde, or January 6. What exactly are we getting for our money?
From Espionage to Entitlement
There’s a big difference between "national security" and national insecurity masked as patriotism. Agencies like the NSA and CIA have gone from fighting foreign threats to treating every American as a suspect. They violate Fourth Amendment protections like it’s a form of performance art—mass surveillance, bulk metadata collection, warrantless wiretaps, and secret courts that greenlight unconstitutional overreach like a vending machine.
The intelligence community doesn’t serve the people—it monitors them. It doesn't protect your freedom—it preempts your resistance. It’s the deep state’s insurance policy, and it’s costing us our privacy, our values, and our future.
The Phantom Utility of Nukes and Spooks
Nuclear weapons are the world's most expensive security blanket. They deter nothing, solve nothing, and protect no one. In a real modern war, nukes are unusable—deploying them means extinction, not victory. Yet we stockpile them like the Cold War never ended. The intelligence community operates in the same fantasy. It's an outdated, Cold War holdover—an empire built on secrets, red tape, and fictional threats. It doesn’t fight wars; it funds them. It doesn’t win peace; it profits from chaos.
Ask yourself: when was the last time the CIA, NSA, or ODNI solved a problem that wasn't made worse by their existence? Every failure is followed by a bigger budget. Every lie is sanitized as “classified.” It’s not national defense—it’s national theater. And the public is footing the bill for this grotesque illusion.
We Don’t Need Reform. We Need Removal.
We cannot reform what was never built to be accountable. The solution is not tighter rules or better oversight; it’s gutting the beast. We need to shut down fusion centers, dismantle unconstitutional programs, and defund the architecture of fear that makes the government more afraid of its people than of any foreign threat.
Surveillance tech should serve warrants, not circumvent them. Intelligence budgets should answer to the people, not to black-budget parasites and war profiteers. And the American people need to realize that a country that spies on its citizens under the guise of protection is not a democracy—it’s a surveillance state in denial.
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