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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 02:20:29 JST Charlie Stross

   Last time I looked (five minutes ago), the United States Intelligence Community—an agency that exists purely as a coordination/clearinghouse for other intelligence aencies—had 17 member agencies. And those are the DECLARED intelligence agencies. Did you know that the Army of the US Navy (the Marine Corps) has its own intelligence agency? And so does the Coast Guard!
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 03:15:11 JST jwz

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     @cstross At this point I assume that even the SF BART Transit Police have their own black-ops Section 31.

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     John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 03:35:19 JST John Carlos Baez

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     @cstross - if intelligence agencies could make us intelligent, the US would be one of the most intelligent countries in the world.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 04:09:55 JST Charlie Stross

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     • tudor

     @tudor Enforces the Comstock Law, from January 21st 2025, if Leonard Leo and J. D. Vance gets their way.

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     tudor (tudor@spacey.space)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 04:09:56 JST tudor

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     @cstross The US post has one too! Maybe even two, not sure what the inspector general does.

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     Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 04:23:08 JST Eleanor Saitta

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     @cstross
     And? Every significant operational group in every branch of the military in every country that has one has a group of folks doing intelligence — even if the core intelligence function is entirely externalized to a single organization (or more commonly, three, one for domestic, one for foreign, and one for military), those organizations will have intelligence capacity native to the unit, because they need those folks on the ground in the field at all times and they can't do anything without it. The work that all these folks do needs coordination. It's a complicated intelligence structure because it's a massive imperial military.

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 04:23:08 JST Quinn Norton

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     • Eleanor Saitta

     @dymaxion @cstross THE ROUTERS ARE PEOPLE