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[MCU] Where is SHEILD during the events of Wandavision?

This is the first major appearance of >!SWORD!< in the MCU but with other agencies involved isn’t this the kind of thing SHIELD should be all over?
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By the time of WandaVision SHIELD has been fractured beyond recognition, and what remains of it is somewhere between black ops and vigilantes. The events of Winter Soldier more or less destroyed them as a public-facing international security operation, and had it not been for folks like Coulson and Fury keeping the faith it would have killed the organization entirely. Showing up at an active scene and posting up with SHIELD logos all over everything isn't in their purview anymore. SWORD has effectively displaced SHIELD in that regard, at least in regard to U.S. domestic operations; it's unclear if they have an international level purview. Even then, they still have friction with other outfits; Westview was the FBI's case, before SWORD more or less ran over Agent Woo with more tech and firepower than he could muster, basically hijacking his case out from under him on the pretense of finding their missing operative.