In a rare rebuttal, CIA is pushing back

[YoungDemCA]

97. The CIA and the FBI have NEVER gotten along.

J. Edgar Hoover himself virulently opposed the creation of the CIA. Why? Because he jealously guarded his status as America's Red-Baiter-In-Chief. And he was of the Joe McCarthy view that the biggest threat to the U.S. came from within the country - including from within the U.S. government. Contrast this to the CIA, which from the beginning was all about undermining the Soviets and their allies - and foreign governments who dared to oppose the U.S. in general...in other words, the CIA's jurisdiction was explicitly international (though they of course violated that rule for decades, as exposed by the post-Watergate Congressional investigations in the 1970s...).

Many have argued that the mutual suspicion and distrust and petty rivalries between the CIA and the FBI directly led to the failure to prevent 9/11. Looks like they still hate each other's guts. Fasten your seat-belts, folks, because things are about to get very, very unpredictable...