Maybe it's because I've held a Top Secret security clearance once...

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79. Just because you drank the Kookaid and need to still justify it...

The current national security spends most of its resources making sure it is a growth industry and it will kill anyone and anything that stands in the way.
It costs 5 times more than we can afford to pay for a bloated, defective system when our standard of living, our chances at financial security and happiness are none unless you are good at deluding yourself and that makes for a great society.
It is failing in it core responsibilities miserably.
It is interfering with legitimate businesses, politics, schools, churches, news etc.

It already threatens too many people and takes away too much privacy and more importantly free speech.

One more stolen election and we are in tyranny here in the US not just overseas where all our diplomacy involves weapons, brute force and interfering with other democracies.

Also with the number of people involved, and private corporations there is no way to have secure intelligence. Everyone who shouldn't know what is going on does and too many who need to know what is going on to preserve our Constitutional way of life haven't a clue.

I hate living in a country that uses drones that kill all over the world. Who exports terror on a whim Who sets up Ben Ladens, Husseins, Castros and then makes our life miserable and costly when they go rogue and they say we have to invade entire countries. That manage to kill a bunch of biologists, election machine people and Senators to get what they think is best for the country. We did not elect them.

We are stupid to trust them. We were stupid to let Prescott Bush etal set up the CIA, we were stupid to let Bush Sr, CIA become president, we were stupid to let Bush Jr steal the election, stack the courts, let 911 happen and use it to set up Homeland Security.

They control the child pornography, prostitution trades, they control the drug trade, things they should be eliminating they control almost everything and have made a bloody mess of it all.

All the above has been proven we just pretend it isn't because doing something about it is uncomfortable and difficult but Freedom isn't free and we have given it away for some magic beans, the illusion of security.