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When the National Security Act of 1947 created the [[CIA]], it's authors feared creating a [[Gestapo]]/[[KGB]]-like organization that could be used against enemies, both foreign and domestic. Thus a "wall of separation" was created between the FBI and CIA. The CIA was created to deal with foreign intelligence operations, and the FBI continued its domestic counterintelligence operations.
When the National Security Act of 1947 created the [[CIA]], it's authors feared creating a [[Gestapo]]/[[KGB]]-like organization that could be used against enemies, both foreign and domestic. Thus a "wall of separation" was created between the FBI and CIA. The CIA was created to deal with foreign intelligence operations, and the FBI continued its domestic counterintelligence operations.
Gradually the CIA gained certain authority to conduct operations in the United States, such as training anti-[[Castro]] [[Cuba]]ns for the [[Bay of Pigs]] operation or the [[Mena Arkansas]] gun-running scheme. Likewise the FBI has been tasked to investigate roadside IED attacks in [[Iraq]], such as prevented a possible "Bowling Green Massacre" or the 1998 embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.<ref>https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/03/in-bowling-green-fbi-foiled-fbi-plot</ref>
Gradually the CIA gained certain authority to conduct operations in the United States, such as training anti-[[Castro]] [[Cuba]]ns for the [[Bay of Pigs]] operation or the [[Mena Arkansas]] gun-running scheme. Likewise the FBI has been tasked to investigate "crimes" outside the United States, such as roadside IED attacks in [[Iraq]] which prevented a possible "Bowling Green Massacre" or the 1998 embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.<ref>https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/03/in-bowling-green-fbi-foiled-fbi-plot</ref>
But [[Progressive]] [[Democrat]]s came closest to realizing their age old dream of marshalling the [[police]] powers of the state, not for any legitimate counterintelligence or criminal prosecution, but for political and ideological reasons against their imaginary enemies and fellow citizens under President Barack Obama.
But [[Progressive]] [[Democrat]]s came closest to realizing their age old dream of marshalling the [[police]] powers of the state, not for any legitimate counterintelligence or criminal prosecution, but for political and ideological reasons against their imaginary enemies and fellow citizens under President Barack Obama.