[Steve Van Doorn]

This is the claim of John Salisbury
"Here's how things like 'The CIA moving under the NSA' work. When you demote an agency and put it under another agency it takes months of planning and a series of steps to accomplish. The following is a guideline of how to move a Government entity from it's place to another.

https://twitter.com/5Strat/status/969279680879542274

[Cboldt]

I think moving or merging the CIA under the NSA would leave a bit of a footprint, more than we have seen. The CIA would resist, and that resistance would manifest in the press.

I'm not saying such a merger can't be done, just I doubt it has been. On review of some of the statutory bases for CIA and NSA, it appears to me that DNI has the power to make the sort of org-chart rearrangement that is speculated to have occurred. DNI can also clip CIA directly, without changing the org-chart.

US Code Title 50 includes substantial legislation on the Intelligence Community in general, and CIA (Chapter 46) and NSA (Chapter 47) in particular.

DNI has the organizational power (See 50 USC 3024). As I read that, I sense Congress trying to micromanage something it is not competent to even manage at all. Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for.

Anyway, by 50 USC 3035, the CIA serves the DNI, and has powers and limitations according to 50 USC 3036.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Sounds like Wee Willy Pitt and his “24 business hours” excuse.
Homie don’t play that.

[IncPen]

Jack Andersen column, 8/28/1982 Lawsuit Forces CIA Confession on MK Ultra