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CMV: The CIA is an overbloated and borderline illegal organisation, and should be abolished.

  
There's a number of reasons for why I think this.  
First of all, the CIA has been subject to one massive long term fuck up to another, from founding the beginning of the Muhajadeen, which formed the basis for al-Queda and later ISIL, to intentionally fueling the drug crisis leading to the catastrophic mess that is the War on Drugs (helped, of course, by the massive instability in Central America, caused by, you guessed it, the CIA), to toppling Iran's democratically elected leader, leading to the government we have now. And those are just the things we know of.

  
Secondly, for all their talk of protecting America overseas, they've done a terrible fucking job at actually protecting anyone other than far-right dictators and military juntas. They weren't able to prevent 9/11 (or any other high profile terrorist attack for that matter), they were wrong about Saddam Hussein's WMD, they were helpless to stop India, Pakistan, and North Korea from developing nuclear weapons, and despite all their hard work Fidel Castro still died peacefully of old age in his home in Havana. What they have been able to do, however, is install and maintain dozens of brutal military dictators, who've taken god knows how many lives and caused enormous damage to the countries which they ruled over. We don't even know precisely how much damage they've caused, something which I'll quickly go over in the next point.  
The thing is, in a free, democratic nation like the US all government agencies, from the military to the postal service, from the justice department to the educational department need a good level of transparency and accountability. This includes it's intelligence agencies. The fact that we don't even know how much money is pumped into the CIA, let alone where it's going or why, is, in my mind, beyond ridiculous. We now have a situation where American taxpayers are unwittingly lining the pockets of third world dictators, paramilitaries and corrupt politicians. Who are these people, and how much do they get? We don't know.

  
The pathetically poor amount of transparency and public oversight that is given to the CIA is beyond ridiculous, and quite frankly fairly dangerous. Government agencies, or any organizations for that matter, which believe (in this case, not unjustly) that they have no real checks or oversight, will attempt to abuse it. For an example just within the US government, just look at the NSA, which saw virtually no governmental or public oversight and subsequently conducted a massive and borderline illegal global online surveillance operation, which only became truly known to the world after a whistleblower from within showed the details to the world. President Harry S. Truman even famously called it the "American Gestapo", and to be honest, the metaphor isn't misplaced.  
An organization with so little oversight and transparency that it is practically above the law is at best a liability, and at worst dangerous to a country, it's allies, and it's people.

  
Finally, it's important to remember how much of what the CIA does and has done in the past is illegal and unconstitutional. Examples of these include arresting and possibly murdering journalists and whistleblowers, aiding open enemies of the American government like Iran and countless foreign armed groups, to brazenly lying before Congress, to intentionally planting drugs in poorer communities in order to disrupt those communities and fuel the drug crisis, as mentioned earlier. And that's not even getting started on international law, or the law of the countries they've operated in. It's easy to overlook those clear breaches of law, with much of it happening oversea's and being committed by a government agency, but that doesn't change the fact that what they've done, and possibly still do is still illegal, and far too often overlooked.

  
In conclusion, for the above-mentioned reasons, I believe that the CIA as a government agency should be abolished, with its duties and responsibilities going to the Pentagon and FBI, among others. It's constant habit of making stupid, foreseeable and catastrophic mistakes, it's inability to actually do the job it was created, it's dangerous lack of any real oversight or transparency, and its brazen ignorance of domestic and foreign law in order to achieve it's classified goals would be all the reason anyone would need to abolish any government agency. Especially one that demands diverts such a large amount of money away from agencies and departments that more need it and into the hands of god-knows-who in god-knows-where.

  
I'm not a tinfoil conspiracist, and I trust the US government on many, if not most things, but in my mind nowhere is this trust less deserved than in the CIA. I'm interested in hearing what you all have to say about this, and I actually really hope that I find out that the CIA is worth more than I thought it was.
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>	They weren't able to prevent ... any other high profile terrorist attack

How do you know this? Isn’t the very nature of a clandestine organization like the CIA that only their screwups make the news? What if they’re actually stopping most of the attacks and that information is kept classified?

Which is not to say that you’re wrong, just that if you’re posting this here without breaking the law, neither you, nor I, nor anyone else who can legally respond to you here has the security clearance necessary to have an informed opinion on this matter.