Healthy principle in a democracy for independent agencies with rich histories of deception and nefarious activities.
If someone had told me in the past, "MAS, someday the left will urge people to trust the FBI and CIA," I would've said he's crazy. But since taking this position is seen as the anti-Trump position, we have folks on the left going with this because it's what they think they have to do to stop an "existential threat."
Everyone surprised that someone who spent a lifetime in this system defends it, stand on your heads.