Why the FBI and CIA Can't Just Get Along

The flurry of new leaks and reports about Russia's role in the US election this week was kicked off by a bombshell piece in the Washington Post that cited anonymous government officials claiming the CIA was certain that the Russian government had interfered in the US election in order to help Trump win. Not so certain: the FBI, which, according to other anonymous government officials cited in the Washington Post, was not prepared to say decisively what the Russian government's intent might have been. On Friday afternoon the plot thickened when more anonymous officials with connections to the CIA claimed in the Washington Post that there was actually no dispute on the matter. The FBI declined to comment.

Whether or not the agencies are in disagreement on this occasion, it would hardly be the first such showdown in their long, and often rocky, history. Brooke talks to Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Tim Weiner, author of "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" and "Enemies: A History of the FBI," about how the organizations were almost designed to breed conflict.

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