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"They" as in the countless spy agencies... I bet you don't even know how many of them are in the USA alone (They all share data anyways, so what's the point?).

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That's a lot of "spy agencies", the word "countless" still applies as it's a figure of speech. Only on HN. This is why an engineer should never be president as much as many of you wish it to be so. You can't have a normal conversation without your ocd ticking off.

I’m not an engineer.

And it’s actually not a lot when you break it down. They each specialize in different areas of intelligence. NSA does SIGINT, NGA does GEOINT, military branches do intelligence for military intelligence in their respective branch, law enforcement intelligence for law enforcement, and so on.

So why do they teach law enforcement agencies to lie about where information comes from?

i.e.: Parallel construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Because they get the information using illegal methods... that's why.

Okay. I don’t know what prompted that question, though.

To my defense, I wasn't only talking only about the USA in the first part of my sentence. But 17 is a shitload either way for the USA (there is probably some secret ones too... aka the black budget).

You really should read up more on how the US intelligence community functions. It can be very enlightening. But why is that a shitload?

I know too much already... they need to spy less on their people.

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