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by bogomipz 3526 days ago
>" Should NSA be broken up?"

From the reading I have done it sounds as though IAD and SIGINT aren't very close. So much so that there's push by some within the agency to connect them. This recent'ish article talks about it:

https://blog.immixgroup.com/2016/04/21/nsa-reorg-vendor-oppo...

I agree that they have very different and conflicting objectives but it sounds as this might already create somewhat of a walled garden between at least two of the three.

But when you hear stories about critical US infrastructure being broken into you have to wonder why aren't these agencies working more closely. You have one agency that specializes in offense and the other defense. Some amount of the offensive should be to help some of the US defenses no?