>Why is state intelligence even a thing? The military is capable of gathering all of the defensive intelligence that we need to protect ourselves.
What are you saying? The military IS the state.
What are you saying? The military IS the state.
Hurr durr the military is the state, you have no clue what you're talking about. I served for 6 years doing naval intelligence, sigint, and we never once heard from nsa, cia, fbi, etc. All our orders came from one of two generals in charge of our task force.
Nuclear subs night have to work with intel agencies for technical purposes, but I never served on one.
I agree that we should not shape our laws based on edge-case criteria (e.g comic book villains), but their has to be some cross-state law enforcement.