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Re:Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N... by toufka on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:59PM (#11179718)
>if the NSA had that data, they'd share it with the FBI

No they would not. Different government agencies are tasked with different resources, different objectives, and different guiding laws. What is legal for some agencies is blatantly illegal for others. The NSA has no domestic mission and cannot generally operate on American soil - true of the entire US military [1]. This blurring of those lines is exactly the problem. By permitting the FBI to take on NSA-like capabilities, and giving the NSA FBI-like responsibilities one gives the military a role in monitoring its own citizens, and an adversarial law enforcement agency unlimited espionage powers - very dangerous precedents - digital or otherwise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

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Re:Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N... by thejefflarson on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:55PM (#11179872)
The FBI most definitely has access to intelligence databases and information:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/us/25stellarwi...

A key part of the FBI's mission is "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats" after all:

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/faqs

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Re:Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N... by mattlutze on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:01AM (#11181686)
NSA is an agency of the Department of Defense. CIA is an independent organization. FBI is counted among the set of US "Intelligence" organizations, but if there's one thing media and memoirs tell us, it's that organization in different Departments have a history of not playing nice. Case in point, all the finger pointing around organizations not sharing information pre 9/11.

DOD and DOJ in particular I don't think have such a close buddy-buddy relationship.

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Re:Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N... by thejefflarson on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:57AM (#11182016)
Information sharing greatly increased post 9/11. See my reply to the sibling comment.
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Re:Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N... by cuckcuckspruce on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:56AM (#11181660)
They have limited access to some intelligence databases and information. That doesn't mean that they can just pop random selectors through PRISM for the lulz though - nor does it mean that the FBI and NSA share everything they have on everybody, or at least they don't for now.
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Re:Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N... by thejefflarson on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:56AM (#11182009)
I don't think it is in anyway limited:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/facilitating-an-enhanced-...

As to the point about selectors, if a selector has an even remotely domestic terrorism related component, and is authorized by the FISA court, the FBI can and does see that information.

Edit: added qualifier about terrorism

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