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by TeMPOraL 3357 days ago
How about NSA just does this, per its name, and the offensive signals intelligence gets handled by the CIA?
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CIA is primarily HUMINT (and intel triage, covert operations, etc) so their focus is going to be on the end points for individual targets. SIGINT is a gigantic field and a shift like this would essentially just a merger of NSA's SID into CIA while leaving NSA with just IAD.

Genuinely curious, what would be the gain in doing that?