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The NSA doesn’t perform domestic intelligence. Even in a conspiratorial world where they do: operating outside of their legal mandate would mean that they would
by woodruffw 3y ago
The NSA doesn’t perform domestic intelligence. Even in a conspiratorial world where they do: operating outside of their legal mandate would mean that they wouldn't involve themselves with things like this.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoReplace NSA with US government.
- woodruffw 3y agoThat’s an entirely different sentence: specifying the NSA puts the claim into the territory of conspiracy, while specifying domestic federal LEO is essentially a question of capacity, reach, and competency. (Moreover, I don’t think anybody wants to live in a world where the FBI is 100% accurate in detecting school shooting hoaxes. That would imply other abilities that we’d consider unacceptable.)
- jameshart 3y agoThe article talks about calls tracing to Ethiopian IP addresses. A man was recently arrested in Peru for calling in bomb threats to US schools[1]. This is not a domestic intelligence problem. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/28/peruvian-bomb-threats-arrested-us-schools https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/28/peruvian-bomb-...