^ ^ ^ If there's any Keanu-pill to swallow, it's this. Intelligence agencies don't "make us safe," they drive financial gain for insiders. I'd bet the ratio of effort spent on "market manipulation" versus "find the evil doers" to be 10:1.
Intelligence agencies exist to gather intelligence about the adversaries of state actors, not "find the evil doers". And being the bloated government agencies that they are I very much doubt they're the hyper-competent market manipulators you imagine them to be.