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I think you have the CIA and NSA's jurisdictions mixed up there.

I agree that the above poster has them backwards.

Yet I have never been clear on why we need a domestic spy agency given we have the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, DHS, and DOJ who are all actively engaged in monitoring internally. At what point to people start to realize that all of these groups will exist to serve themselves at our own expense?

NSA is not a domestic spy agency. The only mix-up was that FBI does domestic surveillance, not the NSA, which the more detailed articles about PRISM did reference, if you knew what to pay attention to ;).

I'm sure this is a common thought. But if there was just one agency someone would be complaining "Why do we have MegaAgency? It's too powerful. It should be broken into smaller agencies with less power to abuse.".

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