What is the difference between the C.I.A and the F.B.I?
Do they have overlapping jurisdictions? My guess is that C.I.A. is outside of the USA (foreign), and the F.B.I is for local USA (domestic) jurisdictions.
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The CIA is also an intelligence agency, that is, it gathers information (and does other activities including espionage, covert operations, and covert financing) mostly overseas for the President and the Federal Government (and perhaps for its own notions of purpose).
The FBI is a security organization with both domestic intelligence (and counter-intelligence) and law enforcement roles.
Initially, the CIA gathered info of dangers outside the US borders & the FBI took care of any dangers inside our borders. Over the years those lines seems to have become blurred. The FBI was a lot more important back when the Mafia was in full swing, but now it’s more difficult to tell who the bad guys are. The FBI doesn’t get involved with drug dealers because there’s a department set up specifically for that danger
Well, one of them is in the business of running systematic and secretive torture camps in contravention of international law.
Theoretically, what @RedDeerGuy1 wrote is true. But factually, the CIA does work inside the US and the FBI does operate in the rest of the world.
It really doesn’t matter. The US Intelligence apparatus doesn’t follow the law anyway.
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