Agencies Working Against Each Other

CIA FBI 911 Both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are part of the larger, 17 unit organization that is known as the United States Intelligence Community. The CIA and FBI have had a history of conflict and disagreement as history dictates. The most obvious and direct failure of cooperation of these two organizations was revealed in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11.

The institutional differences between these organizations were fully exposed as the intelligence relating to these events have been partially revealed throughout the last decade plus. This essay will provide some details about this conflict and provide some links to some related information about this idea. The CIA and FBI are both separate units with different missions regarding the safekeeping of America's resources. In past years the CIA has been much more associated with foreign affairs and worked closely with military and defense forces.

The FBI is a slightly older organization with a history in pursuing domestic crimes and issues. Since the attacks of 9/11 contained aspects of both domestic and foreign issues, the failure to connect the information that each agency had acquired demonstrates a huge lack of communication and purpose. Leadership had failed at a colossal level. Johnston (2003) provided a useful article regarding U.S.

Congressional report that faulted the FBI and the CIA for missing key clues: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/us/9-11-congressional-report-faults-fbi-cia-lapses.html The British newspaper the Mail also discussed the CIA's inability to discuss the obvious threats with the FBI in this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-302424/CIA-failed-warn-FBI-9-11-hijackers.html The entire 9/11 COmmissio Report can be read here to get a full and detailed argument of this source: http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf Here is another condensed version: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-911REPORT/content-detail.html Here is an argument suggesting that the attacks were a product.