The FBI is a domestic law enforcement agency while the CIA is a foreign intelligence agency which due to abuses in the past is prohibited from acting on US soil (except in special circumstances).

One of the bigger concerns with combining FBI and CIA is too much centralization of power. In the US, we (at least theoretically) abhor centralized power. We depend on checks and balances. Since neither the FBI nor the CIA are main branches of the government, we can't afford to give them more power than the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branches.

@anndeecosita3586

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure I fully understand your point. They both fall under the executive branch. The FBI is under specifically part of the DOJ so it answers to the Attorney General. The FBI arrests but doesn’t prosecute or convict. The FBI doesn’t create laws. so even with a theoretical merger they would have no judicial or lawmaking powers.

@bradrhoades1305

Жыл бұрын

Lmfao explain the IRS

@O2life

Жыл бұрын

@@bradrhoades1305 The IRS is an agency within the United States Department of the Treasury, which is part of the Executive Branch. The IRS was created in 1862 by an act of Congress (Legislative Branch) though it was called “The Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue” until 1913. In 1894, the Supreme Court (Judicial Branch) declared the Income Tax of 1894 unconstitutional, triggering a nationwide effort to reform tax law. The effort culminated in the ratification of the sixteenth amendment by the states. I can go on, Brad, but the next 100 years of IRS history continues to be more of the same: check and balances.

@bradrhoades1305

Жыл бұрын

@@O2life the IRS has too much power. Perio#. There is no balance. They can throw you in jail, seize your assets, and freeze you bank accounts. Its legal robbery.

@iNSANE0621

Жыл бұрын

​@@O2lifeYou're wrong from the first sentence. The IRS is NOT an agency. It is a private corporation with the power of arrest and prosecution.

Before the FBI, a criminal could easily get away from law enforcement if they crossed from one state to the next as all state law enforcement's jurisdiction ends at the state line which was a tactic Clyde of "Bonnie & Clyde," regularly used so the FBI's jurisdiction immediately kicks in as soon as a criminal crosses the state line.

The FBI is like a federal law enforcement agency and the CIA is our foreign spy service.

@calesr6940

Жыл бұрын

Jim these definitions are simple but good descriptions of the agencies' roles.

@heywoodjablowme8120

Жыл бұрын

FBI are cops and play by some rules. CIA serves the interests of America and plays by its own rules.

@BillColeExperience

Жыл бұрын

and BOTH are corrupt

@Rob-rx3jw

Жыл бұрын

Short and sweet definition.

@user-kg7co9vi5r

Жыл бұрын

Before the CIA was created American foreign intelligence was carried out by other agencies Naval Intelligence and the FBI chief among them. The CIA was originally conceived as an organization to concentrate and analyze data. Much like the later creations of the NSA and Homeland Security Agency, mission creep seems to always take over.

This is just a drop on the bucket for all the alphabet organizations we have. So many of them cross over into each others areas of focus that's it hard to know who's doing what and they like it that way.

@JRush374

Жыл бұрын

Also every agency has multiple factions that bump heads with each other

Fun fact, the oldest federal law enforcement agency in America is also the smallest agency; it is the United States postal police with only about 2000 federal officers nationwide and has primary jurisdiction on all crimes which involve the mail. So if you send arsenic through the mail, expect the postal police to show up at your door.

Just to provide an example, if a crime occurs in a city, the city police have jurisdiction. But if the person leaves the city but is still within the county, it would fall under the sheriff’s department. If they leave the county, it would then go to the SBI- State Bureau of Investigation. If they leave the state, it would be an issue for the FBI. Federal Bureau of Investigation. That’s a very over simplified version, but you get the picture.

@JohnLeePettimoreIII

Жыл бұрын

and if they successfully leave the country, they're probably a politician.

@spidersinspace1099

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnLeePettimoreIII If they leave the country, that’s when the CIA might get involved.

@firstenforemost

Жыл бұрын

They don't have to be in a specific place for the jurisdiction to be determined. It falls to which legal level has precedence. For example, kidnapping is always Federal, regardless of where it occurs. If you commit a crime through the mail, also Federal. Investigations often start based on location though, but not always.

@seethe42

Жыл бұрын

@@spidersinspace1099 No that would be the FBI and State Department still. The CIA is not a law enforcement agency at all. They have no ability to arrest or charge anyone. The CIA is mostly involved in foreign intelligence, counter terrorism and counter intelligence.

@seethe42

Жыл бұрын

@@firstenforemost Bank robbery is also FBI because banks, credit unions and savings & loans are federally insured.

My cousin has been at the CIA for 15 years. Nobody knows what he actually does, except that he used to frequently travel and was unable to contact anyone. He works a desk job now. I also have a good friend that in the FBI. It wasn’t pleasant to be questioned for an hour and a half by 2 FBI agents that were creepily waiting for me at my home without warning. She never mentioned me during her interview process either; my name “came up” while doing her background check as a “longtime social contact.” That’s not disconcerting or creepy at all…

@GroundZer0000

Жыл бұрын

Probably shouldn't mention that about your cousin....

@mmc8539

Жыл бұрын

@@GroundZer0000 Do you honestly think I’d be that stupid to compromise the safety of someone I love? I’ve been taught since I was a child about safety and anonymity online. If I knew anything I said could be traced back to my loved one I wouldn’t comment. In addition, do you think any agency would let my comment exist if they knew it would violate or compromise security?

@ethans7588

Ай бұрын

@@mmc8539 They'd be able to know you commented something insecure on a random youtube video?

Nadine the reason why the FBI and the CIA aren't the same agency is because their job would literally be to expansive. It's like how there are different arms or branches of our military. Also good for plausible deniability too. There are SO many covert operations that both the military AND the CIA carry out every year to protect or in the interest of America.

The CIA evolved out of the OSS in WW2. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) was supposed to be a temporary wartime agency, but we see how that happened.

@prvtcaboose

Жыл бұрын

Almost nothing created by government is truly temporary.

@John_Redcorn_

Жыл бұрын

Nothing more permanent than a ‘temporary gvmnt program’

This video is full of understatements.

@firstenforemost

Жыл бұрын

This is an understatement.

The part where they say that the FBI can talk about what they do is not completely correct. My wife is retired FBI. I can't tell you how many times she has come home and I asked how her day was and she said "You'll never guess what happened................Oh never mind I can't talk about it" Being a retired Cop I never questioned it.

@Ace-mw9pm

Жыл бұрын

She wouldn’t be able to talk about active investigations. But when it’s all said and done she should be able to talk about it freely, because it’s public knowledge. Kinda like when they were doing sting operations on the mob, you wouldn’t be able to talk stuff that hasn’t came to fruition yet. But after it has everything is all over the news and public knowledge.

@TxRednek69

Жыл бұрын

@@Ace-mw9pm exactly, but they are told not to say anything. A lot of info that comes out is redacted.

One of the reasons there are nearly 400 different Federal agencies or sub-agencies is due the complexities of US national life. Beyond that, it means there is a lot of overlap. The Achohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agency (ATF), would be another example that might involve the FBI, or CIA overlap. There is also the need for some antagonism between them, because you never know when someone might become corrupt...so it also acts as checks and balances. If you see two agencies becoming very friendly with one another...that could be a very bad sign for a democracy.

Asking why they can't be the same agency is like asking why the Army and Navy can't be a single service. Yes there might be some overlap but at a high level they have different very different roles and operational needs.

@anndeecosita3586

Жыл бұрын

The army and Air Force used to be.

Love your Bloopers!!

I LOVED that intro! Mainly because I've watch a lot of your videos. I know yalls dynamic, so that intro really made me smile. Much love!! 🥰

Another GREAT VID! Love you guys!

I met someone who worked under cover until they couldn't handle it anymore and became a nurse. Then living across the country from where they were undercover someone recognized them. They said it was terrifying but it worked out. They actually fell in love. My parents got a book about someone local to where I grew up. They were a former FBI agent. They had to get special permission to write the book. Don't remember what it's called now.

@jennypack217

Жыл бұрын

It's been awhile since I thought about it. They were captured and raped. Then left for dead. That's how they got out of that business. For the undercover one.

You know your wife is happy when she breaks out laughing for no reason, and your looking at her like WTF ? LOL

@John_Redcorn_

Жыл бұрын

That or bi-polar😂. Just kidding

thank you for reacting to this video! See you next time!

Hello from Ohio USA 🇺🇸

They're two different agencies because they have two entirely different purposes. The FBI is federal level law enforcement. The CIA is not law enforcement.

@Rockhound6165

Жыл бұрын

If the FBI are supposed to be federal then why are they interfering in local law enforcement juridictions?

@raroba01

Жыл бұрын

@@Rockhound6165 Because Federal supersedes local.

@bluflaam777

Жыл бұрын

@@Rockhound6165 erm, because they are legally allowed to when it comes to "federal crimes" or when asked by local law enforcement.

@hisownfool1

Жыл бұрын

Also,, the CIA is legally forbidden from operating in the United States.

@HeyItsHades

Жыл бұрын

@@Rockhound6165 The FBI does not get involved in state or local investigations unless A) at the request of the state or local agency or B) a federal crime was committed or part of the crimes committed. For example, let say someone set off a bomb somewhere. While this person might be facing murder along with other charges from local & state law enforcement most likely setting off this bomb would also be considered domestic terrorism, which is a federal crime & one of the main things the FBI is tasked with. Therefore, the FBI will step in to work with the local & state law enforcement agencies to investigate the crime & apprehend the criminal.

"Why do they need 2 separate agencies?"... wait until they learn about the NSA, ATF, DEA, Secret Service, US Marshals, and all the others!

Both are horrible organizations and should be abolished. Along with the atf and department of education.

@jonathonfrazier6622

Жыл бұрын

They are evil.

Interesting timing on this topic. A lot of partisan leadership corruption is being debated and investigated in the us Congress over both the FBI and CIA.

@JustMe-gn6yf

Жыл бұрын

They're both corrupt agencies and should be disbanded

@williamchiles7856

Жыл бұрын

The first are like federal police the Cia is more jamesbond

@johnzubil2875

Жыл бұрын

who told you that Trump?🤡

@Ohbrodda

Жыл бұрын

@@johnzubil2875 TDS at its finest

@zig_zag____1265

Жыл бұрын

@johnzubil2875 Facts told us that. Something the left doesn't believe in.

These are great. More of you two reacting

0:28 now I had to pause because I started cracking up! LMAO

Add in Homeland Security, ATF, NSA, Secret Service, Police Departments, Sheriff Departments, State Troopers, and Texas Rangers. Plus Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and Reservist for these branches of the military. We are well protected, but sadly bad things still happen.

First time I saw this. I do understand & approve. God Bless America so that /America may protect other worthy country's. Dad was in OSI. He loved New Zeland. Said that he wanted to live there. Take us with You DAD!

You asked why there are two different agencies? The FBI only investigates crimes on US soil and the CIA is not allowed by law to investigate US citizens on US soil unless there is an imminent threat.

To make matters more confusing, there's also the US Marshals Service, whose duties somewhat overlap with those of the FBI, and the National Security Agency (NSA) whose duties somewhat overlap with those of the CIA. 😕

@dr.killson7355

Жыл бұрын

US marshals tend to focus on activities in a certain state while NSA focuses on communications in the US like if a group people start talking about very suspicious activities openly on the internet they transfer that information to local law enforcement or the FBI

@Rkay421

Жыл бұрын

Let’s not forget The CTU (counter terrorist unit)

@aerotechify

Жыл бұрын

@@Rkay421 lol

@Rkay421

Жыл бұрын

@@aerotechify what? That who they are,

@seethe42

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Secret Service. They don't just protect the president, their main job is actually anti-counterfeiting and safeguarding US financial infrastructure systems..

Both agencies have done more harm than good

The CIA and FBI do very different jobs. It wouldn't really make sense for them to be the same agency. The FBI is a federal police force essentially. Whereas the CIA is involved with foreign intelligence and espionage. Yes they should definitely share intelligence when they have an overlap, but that by no means means that they should just be one agency.

FBI takes cases that can cross State lines. For instance, if there is a kidnapping of a child, that falls under FBI jurisdiction because the local police agency only handles their jurisdiction, but the kidnapper could possibly move across state lines, and so the FBI would take over. CIA only deals with foreign issues that might possibly conflict with American interests.

@katw3070

Жыл бұрын

At last, an answer with common sense.

We also have Homeland Security Agency which probably muddies the water even further.

Love a good case of the giggles 😂

This is the first NZ Family video I have caught right after it was posted. Usually I catch it 2 months later

In the name of good taste and decorum, I will refrain from sharing my opinion of these two agencies.

@johnzubil2875

Жыл бұрын

if you're a Trumper, you have neither.🤡

@zig_zag____1265

Жыл бұрын

They're Corrupt

@uploadingjoy9120

Жыл бұрын

Me, too.

@jonathonfrazier6622

Жыл бұрын

Like how they are corrupt. Rigged the 2019 and 2020 elections. Commit crimes and then lock up innocent people for them? That kind of stuff right?

@John_Redcorn_

Жыл бұрын

I second this motion

We are a Federal Republic ..not a democracy but it is how our constitution was outlined invthat theory. States are governed individually with a federal oversight of three seperate, but equal, branches: legislative, judicial and executive. Our founding fathers did this to ensure not any entity can have total rule. Unfortunately, civics and our unique constitution are not taught much. Most Americans are clueless. No other country has our freedom as written in our Constitution. Period. None.

By conspiracy theories they mean things that you’re not allowed to talk about but will probably end up coming out as true after the people involved can’t be prosecuted

Hello from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The CIA is operational everyday in over 134 countries worldwide. Although the men who went in and killed Bin Laden were Navy Seals, they were working as CIA operatives at that time and in fact wore solid black uniforms with no markings of any kind. That's because he was in Pakistan which is not just of course its own Sovereign Nation but it is supposed to be an ally and not mentioning a nuclear power. By law America could not do a military response. So the CIA is always the third option following diplomacy and then War as number one and number two.

Because their missions are different. FBI is primarily a law enforcement agency that investigates federal crimes. CIA is all about espionage.

Two agencies make the best "Chinese Walls" as they're called in the industry. Prevents the misuse of inside information. One reason they do not share everything. Less chance of the wrong stuff leaking out.

@jonathonfrazier6622

Жыл бұрын

They are the ones misusing the information.

They are both EVIL...

@heywoodjablowme8120

Жыл бұрын

But necessary....the world 🌎 isn't LaLa land.

The NSA is another fun federal agency to study. Another older agency that has an interesting history is the Pinkertons. The Treasury Department that includes the famous section the Secret Service is another interesting agency.

Best advice, read the Warren Commission report. The Dallas Police Department did a fairly good job protecting the evidence and it’s chain of custody. The autopsy should have been done by the Dallas County corner, amongst the best in the USA and the world at this time. But the Kennedy family killed that, so that was performed by two Navy doctors in DC instead. Much of the controversy with the autopsy would have been avoided. But conspiracy maniacs wishing to sell their own books and making a fortune would still have risen. Ho many times have we seen one mad gun man kill dozens of people, yet we refuse to believe it occurred here. Why?

Love the blooper reel

Best intro yet lol

I have a family member that was a member of the CIA. I actually met the Director of the CIA when he came to a family members wedding that wedding that I was in because he worked with my other family member. It was awesome being able to speak to him and having him genuinely wanting to know about me. And I actually didn’t know who he was. I did see a bunch of men that definitely were not part of our family that were spread out across the church, I guess Secret Service? And then also people with guns on top of the church and the surrounding buildings. Only once we got in the car for the reception my dad said “do you know who that was that was speaking to you?” And I told him no and then my dad told me exactly who he was. My dad says that I was lucky because there were some people that were clamoring to get his attention, and he really only spoke to me, my family member that worked with him, and the bride and groom. And then he left with the armed men.

I guess someone should tell them that the NSA exists as well

@John_Redcorn_

Жыл бұрын

And DHS

Best intro ever 😂

I would love to see you guys react to School House Rock 'America Rock' musical short cartoons from the 1970's. Very family friendly with catchy tunes. The first one is 'No More Kings' but "Elbow Room is my favorite. No one else seems to be reacting to these videos and I think you guys would like them.

the beginning lmaoo

I love how people say the C** is only for foreign matters…. You all must have forgot about Project MKUltra…. *shakes head*

It's about borders. If it happens in a city the local police are the agency in charge. If they leave the city, now you have the county agencies (different in each state) involved. If they leave the state, that is when the FBI becomes involved. All in theory, because some crimes (kidnapping) automatically involve the FBI. The CIA becomes involved if the crime is international, like drugs coming in from other countries. But the DEA is the agency they deal with. As the crime expands, who is involved in solving it involves more and more agencies (USA and other countries), so to manage that, the CIA coordinates who is going to do what.

The main reason for the separation is the US government isn't supposed to target it's own citizens. Therefore there exists the eyes of five, the eyes of etc. That probably should be a video.

Frankly we have to many federal law enforcement agencies. The FBI should be dissolved and it duties absorbed into Homeland Security. Likewise the CIA should be absorbed into the NSA. Other agencies could and should be consolidated as well. It won't happen but it should. All this redundancy costs taxpayers needlessly.

Dorothy Kilgallen was murdered in 1965 because she got too close to figuring out who killed jfk

The FBI is an investigative police force at the federal level that is a member 9f the Federal Department of Justice.. The CI@ is an intelligence gathering (& acting upon) agency that mostly operates internationally. It's place in the US federal government is in the US State Department. Its the US State Department that controls the issuing / validationof passports and travel visas.

@alphahighs

Жыл бұрын

They already watched the video

Love the Suns shirt!

Yea the FBI deals with federal law enforcement and is also an intelligence agency part of the “IC” or intelligence community but overseen by the Department of Justice. The CIA like you said has no domestic mandate but instead is international. They are also part of the IC. America has way more than 2 intelligence agencies. 18 to be precise.

FBI is a law enforcement agency, while the CIA can and will operate outside the bounds of the law, as long as they consider it to be within the realm of national security. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is also responsible for heading criminal investigations of other law enforcement agencies, politicians, etc. In cases where a lessor authority might not be impartial to the investigation the FBI tends to be the one that takes it on. If a local police agency is corrupt, you call the FBI, if the head of a school district is embezzling money, most likely the FBI investigates it, if a Federal Wildlife Officer was selling endangered animals/animal byproducts (which is illegal) it would most likely end up on the desk of an FBI agent to investigate. Since the CIA prioritize national security above all else, shady things can and do happen. If an FBI agent was working alongside CIA agents and the FBI agent witnessed something potentially illegal, they are bound to report it and start an investigation, which would also violate CIA security protocols. So it's not so much that the two agencies dislike each other or refuse to work together, it's about a conflict of interest. While information can be shared to help both parties work together, if the intelligence was gained through less than legal means, the FBI would be duty bound to open an investigation which could potentially put American assets at risk. If that investigation had the potential to harm American assets, then the CIA would be stuck in the situation of trying to maintain security, cover up any intel leaks, such as hindering the investigation which in itself would be a crime, and potential force the investigation to be terminated. It's important to remember that while CIA agents perform valuable work for our country and it's interests, much of what they do would be considered a crime either under our own laws or the laws of other countries. If an American commits, or orders a foreign asset to commit, any crime, such as an assassination, than that is something the FBI, should they become aware of it, would be required to investigate. It's a legal rabbit hole, which for the most part, is avoided by the two agencies keeping a bit of distance from each other.

@angrboda45

Жыл бұрын

This is the best explanation in the entire comments section. Hope they read it!

Hope you guys don't have any Top Secret documents in those boxes next to your bed. 🤣

Nadine saying hi! Is exactly correct and that's what my brain says every time you say what's up NZ-ers! You guys have access to Animal Control? One of the funniest characters is a kiwi!

Liking that Phoenix Suns shirt. I’m from Arizona myself

The reason why the US has multiple different agencies is so they can divide certain types of crimes easily and monitor them at the same time so that way you don’t put to much work on one group of agents this way depending on the crime you can just communicate with one agency who specializes in this category like if a cop crosses the line you call IA (internal affairs) if some crazy guy is trying to build weapons in his garage or sell toxic homemade alcohol you call ATF(alcohol tobacco and firearms) the FBI sits above all of them and monitors any information they send out and monitors anyone involved in this activity without them knowing and justifies if they need to step in or should the local law enforcement step into that way we don’t send 1000 agents to an incident that only 5 police officers could handle the CIA on the other hand has to deal with anyone in other countries who are a threat and tries find out any information about them and see if they can be dealt with without starting an international incident or worse start a war and if possible deal with it indirectly like if it’s in a friendly country alert their government to deal with it

Fallout pls wait a moment screen mid pop up is awesome……. Love the videos thanks for sharing your experience with us

At some point, you can say they are both part of the same US Government. Just as in any job, there are different departments who answer to different bosses. Then there is the NSA (aka No Such Agency = Top Secret/Black Ops stuff)

It's crucial to understand there are two different sets of Law in the US - federal and state. Federal Law needs The Department of Justice to have a kind of investigative police, a prison system, courts, etc. The FBI is the investigative police part. States have their own versions when State Law is enforced. The Department of State is federal that deals with international relations, and foreign governments. That's an entirely different function. In New Zealand terms one is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and one is Ministry of Justice.

They may have investigated the crimes of Bonnie and Clyde, but Bonnie and Clyde were stopped by two Texas Rangers.

You could think of FBI like Scotland Yard. The CIA more like MI6.

Not only is there the CIA, which is a civilian agency, there is also the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) which are our military spies. To make matters more confusing there is the NSA (National Security Agency), DHS (Department of Homeland Security created after 9-11), ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms), US Marshals (The guys responsible for apprehending and transporting criminals who cross state lines) Turns out that it takes a rather massive network of govt entities to provide 1/3rd of a billion people a realistic illusion of freedom. If you want to go fishing? We've a govt agency that will tell you where you can fish, when you can fish, what you can fish for, what you can't fish for, and how many fish you can catch, as well as the size and the weight of the fish you're allowed to keep. Want to go camping? Well we've govt agencies to tell you; Well I think you get the picture. America has a lot of regulated freedom and our alphabet soup of agencies organizes all of that regulated freedom.

@derrickcox7761

Жыл бұрын

A dark perspective on life functions.

@locknload4691

Жыл бұрын

The DIA is akin to the former Soviet GRU

The best piece of advice you can receive is not to believe either agency! They are both full of sophisticated liars.

@JohnLeePettimoreIII

Жыл бұрын

i believe the term is now, *_"Expert Misinformationists"._* 😆

@johnzubil2875

Жыл бұрын

Who told you that,The Dumpster Trumpster.🤣🤣🤣

@Ohbrodda

Жыл бұрын

@@johnzubil2875 TDS lol

One thing to consider is that, because they're law enforcement, FBI field agents are supposed to obey the laws of our country. On the other hand, CIA field agents (who are only supposed to operate in other countries) are sometimes given tasks to perform, which, if a foreigner did the same thing inside the USA, we would say that's illegal here and arrest them. CIA field agents are helping to provide "strategic advantage." If enforcing our laws in other countries achieves that end, then they might well do that. If violating another country's laws achieves that same end, they might well do that, also. Of course, like every agency everywhere, I'm sure the great majority of it is doing something harmless and trying to be in the right place at the time to provide useful information to your supervisor and coworkers.

We also have the ATF in the US.

My family member who worked for the Feds covertly…. Always called the FBI “desk jockeys” as amicably derisive lol

Cool video

Neither can be trusted.

They went home.... Good day!

One is a federal law enforcement agency and the other is national intelligence gathering agency.

The FBI is domestic Law Enforcement Agency (for Federal Law plus crimes committed on Federal Land, Indian Reservations and Military instillations or crimes committed by or against Native Americans or the Military ) but has a Counter Intelligence role (to catch spies in the US and stop espionage, especially in war time) while the CIA is a intelligence gathering organization which came from the OSS after Truman realized he messed up dissolving the OSS at the end of WWII, The CIA is by Law not allowed to operated inside the United states (this probably came from the FBI guarding its power and areas of interest when the OSS and later the CIA was formed. My wife has a BS in Chemistry looked into working for the FBI as a chemist after she left the Army Chemical Corps, but she only want to work in its labs and to do that you have to go through the same training as a field agent and work for 3 years as a field agent before you can work in its labs, because of the FBI war time Counter Intelligence duties we would have to give up our Army Office's Commissions to join the FBI

"None in New Zealand." Yeah thats what they want you to think lol.

The FBI cropped up in order to deal with criminals that would commit a crime in one state and then travel to another state to escape local police. We needed a Federal agency to deal with criminals. The CIA handles threats of national security. The agencies do work together though. If there's for example a threat from the cartel on the border the FBI would inform local law enforcement. If the CIA knows about an international threat heading to our country they warn the FBI and local law enforcement.

It is worth noting that, because the U.S. is very much a confederation of autonomous nation-states, an FBI agent may well not have the legal status of a peace officer in some states. One common fallacy of Television and film dramas is FBI agents taking up investigation of crimes that happened inside a state. In Texas, they are not considered peace officers and are only granted arrest authority for violations of state law committed in their presence and are required to turn over the person to a state of local agent as soon as possible. They would not, for instance be able to involve themselves lawfully in the investigation of a common murder. They are primarily useful to local law enforcement because they have offices all of the country and can simultaneously have agents go out the interview people to gain information they will provide to the local agency. To act on their own initiative, they must have a theory of violation of federal law. That's not as hard as it sounds, because they have a broad ability to consider many things as federal civil rights violations, and it is a federal crime to flee the state to escape prosecution locally. That crime, Interstate Flight to Avoid Prosecution is almost never prosecuted, but it allows the FBI to arrest the suspect and take him anywhere in the U.S., including the state that wants to investigate him, without the state having to extradite him. It's very convenient. The FBI is really not a massive agency in the sense of the French National Police and Gendarmarie. They have a relatively light presence in most large cities but no small town local offices. They do, however, have the thankless task of sharing law enforcement with Indian Police on Native American reservations which are off-limits to state law enforcement. And many federal crimes are the specific purview of other federal agents. Counterfeiting belongs to the Secret Service, an agency of the U.S. Treasury. There are military agencies that handle crimes on military reservations and such, Army Criminal Investigation Division. Naval Criminal Investigation Service (which is nothing like the TV show), Air Force C.I.S., etc. U.S. Postal Inspectors have a limited mission of crimes involving the mails. The nation parks service and forest service have law enforcement officers in their respective areas. Federal agencies prefer to merely assist and have state authorities prosecute. There are not many U.S. Attorney's (the federal equivalent of a D.A.), and they have small staffs and are very picky about what cases they take. National candidates for political office who posture about "getting tough on drugs" and such are all mouth. Almost all crime in the U.S., including drug crime, is handled under state laws. And the vast majority of crimes are investigated by local police and sheriffs whose agencies are typically fewer than a dozen officers. They are entirely independent of any higher agency. Sheriff's and Constables, in fact, are elected and are answerable to no one. Where I sit right now, because an city or country officer has full powers throughout the county, I am within the primary jurisdictions of more than 20 state, county and city law enforcement agencies, all with exactly the same powers, no matter what they specialize in. I'm being conservative, since every peace officer in Texas has full powers throughout the entire state, and there are separate agencies for the state Treasury, the Inspector General of the Dept. of Criminal Justice (prisons), the Texas Board of Medical Examiners (they license doctors), the medical examiner districts (coroners), the Texas Attorney General, the Alcohol Control Board, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and quasi state agencies like the Colorado River Authority to who have police to handle the parks they manage. And must not forget colleges and universities who have their own police department and larger school districts with their own police. And I am in the jurisdiction of more federal police agencies than I could recite the names of. This varies by state. In some states, the sheriff does not investigate crimes but only runs the jail. Investigation is done by state detectives and state highway troopers. The U.S. Coast Guard is also considered an law enforcement agency because they have a law enforcement role, and retired coast guard members have the same privilege under federal law that I have to carry handguns anywhere in the U.S. without regard to state laws. The CIA, of course, is not a law enforcement agency and has no arrest powers. No powers, in fact, to operate inside the U.S. If they have a need to invoke criminal law in the U.S., they will resort to the FBI. I had a friend whose assignment for a while was to surveil Soviet Union consulates, sitting in a car that had a CIA agent, an FBI agent, and an NYPD detective. That pretty well covered whatever might come up. When the winter was bad, the Soviets would take pity on them and send out coffee and sandwiches. The FBI is the primary agency for domestic counter intelligence in the U.S. They are the federal spy catchers. The largest police departments also have intelligence units that all work with the federal agencies. Metropolitan areas have special counter-terrorism task forces with members from many agencies.

hahaha....that's a great intro

The polygraph is to test how honest you are not necessarily the subject matter. They can know whatever they want about you anyway. Lol😂

Interesting that they didn't include the NSA & now I'm curious what the difference *there* is

@JohnLeePettimoreIII

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CIA spies on foreigners. FBI spies on USA citizens. NSA spies on everyone including the FBI and CIA.

@trevorkuttler920

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NSA was created by the DoD for signals intelligence (think listening to phone calls and hacking computers). CIA was created for human intelligence (spys/assassins/starting wars in foreign countries). In the modern era there is a lot of overlap but early on they were quite different.

Maybe some clarification on why two agencies would need to exist: the fbi is more like a national police. Large crimes that cross state borders are often handled by them for this reason, or even crimes involving local or state police are elevated to be handled by the fbi. They primarily work with citizens and thus have more public exposure this way. The CIA works alot more with the military, often reading in special teams and higher ranks in on intelligence that has been gathered. They are cleared to do things that the fbi is not (think waterboarding) and they are legally required to work only in foreign countries while the fbi is not.

The FBI and CIA perform functions just as any other government agency is supposed to do, it's just that their jobs tend to be a bit more "high profile" when we do hear about it. However, the FBI and CIA are just different parts of our federal governmental structure, such as the IRS which handles our taxes, or the FAA with our airspace. Also most Americans don't really think about the FBI or CIA a lot because the one we're all actually worried about is the IRS, there's a reason the phrase "Never Mess with the IRS." exists. More high profile criminals have gone to prison over tax evasion than their actual crimes.

There are even more agencies like homeland security and the nsa

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Do a video looking on the cia craziest unclassified documents

I don't know if it's available in NZ, but find the series Jack Ryan. That's a CIA related series.

If you understand the difference between MI5 and MI6 in the UK, it's similar. The FBI is a domestic law enforcement agency and the CIA is an international espionage outfit and domestic counter-espionage to some extent. The FBI can make arrests and the CIA can't. The CIA is not allowed to investigate US citizens except when involved in counter-espionage, usually related to an overseas operation. When the CIA encounters criminal activity by Americans, it has to call in the FBI to arrest them and, as the video says, if a CIA agent commits a crime, including violation of the ban on domestic activity, the FBI will arrest them.

Big difference is FBI is federal law enforcement. The CIA is intelligence (not law enforcement). But the confusing thing is there's also near 100 other federal law enforcement agencies in the US (Think anything from DEA to NASA's Inspector General's Office). Then the intel community is just as convoluted with 17 different intelligence agencies (NSA is another well known one, but there's also stuff like Office of Naval Intelligence or the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research). Jurisdiction is also very confusing between what's military and what's domestic and what's Homeland Security, State, Justice or Defense.

THE FBI is like a national police agency... State, county and city police agencies stay within the border of the state, county or city... The FBI is nationwide as far as jurisdiction... Back in the day if you could get across the state or county line when evading the police, you were pretty much home free.. The FBI changed that, which is why they work with the local police agencies across the county... The CIA was started after WWII to try and stay ahead of another Pearl Harbor type of attack... Technically, the CIA has no jurisdiction on US soil, unless they are dealing with an international issue / criminal, otherwise, local crime in America is not their thing...

And both soooo corrupt.

Looooove the suns shirt.