FBI is 100% unconstitutional, zero mention of any such powers in the Constitution. In fact, they are repugnant to it just by showing up to work and collecting their pay from the rest of us. Same with their parent organization, the DOJ.
There is no DOJ anywhere in the Articles of the Constitution, only a part-time AG who was to advise Congress on legal matters. When did the AG become a chief law enforcer for the Executive Branch?
During Reconstruction, many States and entities filed lawsuits against the Federal Government for claimed or real damages suffered during the Civil War, so Congress appointed a Solicitor General like a defense attorney for the US, made the AG full-time, with an Assistant AG.
During the early Progressive (Marxist) era, they grew the administrative state since they faced so many checks and balances from the Constitution, in order to enact their Marxist/Socialist agenda with bureaucratic subversion of the US.
"On July 26, 1908, the Bureau of Investigation was born when U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch of the Department of Justice. One year later, the Office of the Chief Examiner was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and in 1935 it became the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
Charles Bonaparte was Napoleon Bonaparte’s grand nephew. After the Bureau was formed, it was handed over to a semi-closeted faggot named J. Edgar Hoover, who appointed his live-in husband as the Assistant Director. They then went after prominent people in society using sexual blackmail to coerce them to increase the Bureau’s power for 48 years, until Hoover finally died in 1972 in Clyde Tolson’s & his home.
When you say the FBI needs to be re-built, I just disagree. The Founders would be extremely violent towards the Bureau if they were alive today, would erect gallows for any such traitors, and commence with quick tribunals. They hated secret police with an extreme passion, since they and their ancestors were subjected to the scrutiny and abuse under secret police for generations. Read Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography some time, where he talks about his ancestors’ oppression under the King’s religious police who would come by to make sure his Puritan kin weren’t having family Bible-reading sessions.
The US does need a competent, loyal Counter-Intelligence agency who catch spies and traitors for sure, but the FBU fails on that job and has done so as a rule for the last century. Anytime a crisis emerges they can benefit from, they simply ask Congress for more money. It’s more like a racket in that regard, and now that they have openly moved into the role of palace coups (having already done so covertly in the 1960s and 1970s), their stain on this Nation has run its course.