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Originally Posted by flip
Kind of off topic but the NSA makes the CIA look like girl scouts. I believe the NSA is as big as all the other agencies (FBI, CIA, ATF etc) combined. I'm not sure exactly to what extent the NSA runs covert ops like the CIA though.
That doesn't really have much to do with your post, just the mention of the CIA being less dangerous brought that to mind.
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NSA is responsible for signal intercepts and interpretation, satellite usagage and routing, they are also responsible for the encryption technology that the U.S. government uses. They're also the guys that have the automatic search automation and encryption ability to monitor emails.
But to my recollection, they don't have field agents and don't run black ops, thats all CIA.