I have a question for the group...

[Beastly Boy]

8. I don't know who is telling you that the agencies you are referring to are sitting around and

letting things slide. There is no evidence for this. We keep forgetting that those agencies, because they are so powerful, have been made, for very good reasons, to meticulously follow a whole bunch of laws and rules that are designed to minimize the abuses of their resources and power that these agencies may be tempted to exercise. They must, by law, cross all the T's and dot all the I's before they can proceed. And that, for a very good reason, slows the process down. To an incidental observer it may seem like sitting around, but rest assured, things are moving along.

And yes, there is a limit to the actions of these agencies. Those limits are constantly challenged by the powerful agencies you mentioned, which usually leads to more rules and laws, the laws that are usually created with good intentions and are aimed at protecting the innocent, but they slow down the process. Sadly, it's always a compromise that never ends in a perfect system, but, like representative democracy itself, there is no system that proved to be better than ours.