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… The Countless Failures of Big Bureaucracy - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

For years the FBI was promoted as the ideal government agency, with a long-running TV show promoting its effectiveness. The CIA, National Security Agency, and Secret Service were close behind. Today the FBI is best known for improperly wiretapping a 2016 presidential campaign official and lying to and suppressing information to its oversight court for decades. Top CIA and NSA officials were revealed recently as blocking each other from intelligence that might have prevented the September 11 terrorist attacks. Since the 1960s, the Secret Service has allowed multiple penetrations of the White House, with actual rifle shots into the living quarters in 2012.