CIA and FBI

[andysocial]

I don't understand how the CIA can be allowed to have agents working for the FBI on a longterm basis. The CIA is foreign intell, and FBI is domestic. The CIA is not supposed to be allowed to operate in the US. Is that a law or just Atty General rule, though?

Comments

[robont.livejournal.com]

my understanding was that it was a law... tho they could work in a sharing intelligence capacity tho.....

Intelligence Community

[andysocial]

I taught soldiers about the Intelligence Community for three years, and I'm not sure whether the separation was ever written into law or whether it was just executive orders. The entire NSA was built on Executive Orders for decades before Congress was informed of its budget! Amazing what the U.S. government has gotten away with over the years.

Anyway, we always taught the pillars of the Intell Community were the CIA, FBI, and NSA. There's overt intell from State and Treasury, but they are really poor stepchildren compared to the big three. Those three had very clearly defined roles until last year - CIA was foreign HUMINT, NSA was foreign SIGINT, and FBI was domestic intell. Of course, we all know the FBI is primarily a crime-fighting organization, but they have always had an intell component. To have CIA agents augmenting them now seems incongruous, as if they never had any intelligence capability themselves. I guess they just sucked before. :-)

Re: Intelligence Community

[andysocial]

And Will Smith was tracked in real-time by the fullcolor x-ray vision magic NSA satellites, right?

Re: Intelligence Community

[c-feightner.livejournal.com]

not even NSA can catch a MIB, silly!

MIB

[andysocial]

I was actually thinking of the movie "Enemy of the State," with the magical satellite that could track Will Smith as he ran from building to building, and the amazing ability they had to look through objects to see inside bags and such. Not to mention the fact that it was the NSA that was in charge of imagery satellites. :-)

[c-feightner.livejournal.com]

Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman work in the US, putz! Peace Bro!