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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 4187813" data-attributes="member: 4936">If we're operating inside the USA, you'll probably want FBI, or NSA. CIA is, by law, confined to operating largely outside US borders. Domestically, activities that could be construed as 'spying' or clandestine are undertaken largely by the FBI or NSA.FBI is the federal law enforcement agency...they're basically cops. With a biiiiiiiiig beat. FBI agents operate under less restrictions though as they answer only to Federal law, and they can often get approval for searches, warrants, seizures and so on through streamlined processes. They can also use the infamous 'National Security Letters' when deemed necessary...which the records shows us is pretty often. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My understanding of the NSA is fuzzier...and it's kind of a fuzzy agency to begin with. It's mostly signals intelligence and data security though, I think. Not much in the way of James Bond...they officially spend their time listening the entire world's transmissions and trying to sift through them for signs of trouble...and they secure federal data networks. Technically they're not supposed to collect data on Americans...just foreigners and such whether they're in the USA or not...but in reality they've already gotten in hot water over the whole FISA thing, so who knows? And it's hard to beat ECHELON for conspiracy theory fodder. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Oh, and the Secret Service has MiB's...these are like...the ARCHETYPE MiB's too. Big guys in tuxes with earpieces and sunglasses, stoically surveying the area and wordlessly administering force in precisely measured chunks to protect their charges or complete their tasks. BUT. The Secret Service has a VERY narrow purview. They're not spies...they're bodyguards. Among other things. What other things? You're not cleared for that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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