One way I think about this is the parallel with unions. The fundamental concept of unions and collective bargaining are good and, if you will, wholesome. Ther

One way I think about this is the parallel with unions. The fundamental concept of unions and collective bargaining are good and, if you will, wholesome. There are working environments where it would be difficult to have a voice without such a facility in place. However, it is my opinion that, unions have degenerated into virtual viruses that kill their hosts. Unions have optimized their side of the equation to such an extent that they are now absolutely deadly for both industry and government. The simplest example of this are the ridiculous benefit and pension packages they have obtained. These packages are mathematically impossible to sustain without hurting both their host and people outside the union. Imagine hiring an employee, paying them above industry average and then having to continue paying them 90% of that salary for life once they retire. How does that happen? Are these organizations evil? Are the people evil? Well, no, the people in the unions, the average union member is not evil at all. Tese are generally good folks just like anyone else in the country, union or not. Where is the evil? At some level it is in the union's management. Perhaps not explicitly. Again, most of the people running unions are probably just as nice as anyone else. The evil really resides in the system and its interaction with other systems. Union leadership and me bership seek to optimize the deals they make looking mostly only at their criteria: more money, more benefits, protections, etc. taken to an extreme this leads to evolving a "virus" genetically coded to kill the host. Part of this is facilitated by incompetent negotiators on the other side of the table, particularly in government. That was a long setup to draw a parallel between unions and government agencies entrusted with national security. The vast majority of the people who work for these agencies are good people. The failure is in the system of rules that they operate under and, perhaps, a failure to, just like unions, look way beyond self needs and consider a sphere beyond theirs and a timeline far into the future. In the end it is a failure in the leadership of these organizations. They all work for the executive branch, which means the buck stops with the President.