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Shut it down. Yes we can. The FBI has a ~35,842 person staff. 56% of the bureau that are professional bureaucrats should be fired immediately. Just 44% of FBI employees are special agents & intelligence analysts—these 15,770 specialists should be reassigned to serve under the narrow focus of other federal law enforcement agencies doing the same specialist work. Reassignments: US Marshals Service (821 specialists/analysts transferred) - Crimes against children Department of Commerce - Cyber crime > Bureau of Industry and Security (1860 specialists/analysts transferred) Department of Defense - Counter-intelligence > Defense Intelligence Agency (4,159 specialists/analysts transferred) Department of Homeland Security (4,663 specialists/analysts transferred) - National Security - Terrorism US Secret Service (856 specialists/analysts transferred) - Political corruption Department of Justice, within a specialized sub-agency rather than a sprawling investigative bureaucracy (2,555 specialists/analysts transferred) - Civil rights - Organized crime - Violent crime - Science & Technology, including crime laboratory analysis across agencies Department of the Treasury - White collar crime > Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (856 specialists/analysts transferred)