CIA or FBI?

Question

Would you rather work for the CIA or the FBI and why?

Answer 1

CIA, less oversight more money!

Answer 2

It depends on many things:

1. Location. CIA is forbidden by law to operate on US soil, so if you are a CIA employee and you want to stay in the US you will ride a desk. All your operations will be overseas.

2. Do you have a big mouth? If you do, the CIA doesn't want to talk to you. Working under clearance rules is a lot more stressful than what you see in the news.

3. Are you ready to sign away some of your constitutional freedoms in exchange for a job? The rules for cleared work clash against the principles of due process. When cleared work is involved, you are assumed to be guilty until proven innocence.

4. Do you have a problem dealing with authority? If yes, then neither place is good for you.

5. Are you 100%, absolutely squeaky clean? If not, are you prepared to be called up on it 5, 10, 15 years after whatever is it you did? Both agencies go through exhaustive background checks, and anything can come back to haunt you.

6. Are you fit and healthy? FBI agents are policemen, and their physical training is second to none. You could also work in the non-field areas of the FBI, but you would be missing out all the action. The CIA only has these requirements for their field ops people, which most of the time are recruited out of the armed forces. I doubt the CIA has physical requirements like that for the non field directorates.

7. Do you want to profit on your former CIA or FBI status? A retired FBI agent with a law or accounting degree is still young enough to go corporate and make a killing. A CIA retired employee may be under so many NDAs that he may end up returning as a consultant.

8. Are you comfortable with office politics? Both agencies have brutal corporate politic cultures that go back over 50 years. If you are the kind of person that is annoyed by Mickey Mouse office politics, neither job is good for you.

9. Do you value your fiscal privacy? Either agency can and will check your banking activities routinely, trying to look for people that are doing things they shouldn't.

What would I do? My late dad was a policeman for 32 years, and my brother has been a policeman for 12, so I would easily lean to the FBI side. During my US Army training I was doing cleared work, and I was exposed to #3 many times, so even if I am a die hard Tom Clancy fan it will be a cold day in hell before I volunteer myself to do ANY kind of work that requires a security clearance.

If I was single and just out of college, I would go CIA in a heartbeat.

Answer 3

FBI. They are the justice. They are the one who stop crimes and catches criminals.

CIA. They can be good for the nation but they had done some really bad stuff to people in other countries. They are the one who try to mess up other people. CIA invovlved with many civil wars around the world. You can find out what sort of things they have done by doing search.

Answer 4

The FBI’s principal mission is to defend the security of the United States and within that mission there are priority focus areas.
The Central Intelligence Agency was created to serve as head of the United States intelligence community; act as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to the national security; and serve as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
I would rather defend the United States, so I would have to go with the FBI.

Answer 5

I would not want to work for the Christians In Action (CIA) or F%^king bumbling Idiots (FBI) I would want to work for the US Marshals

Answer 6

FBI. I think CIA would be way too much idle time with spurts of excitement.

Answer 7

There's a difference? I mean they both engage in illegal activity when they're supposed to be under a branch of our government right?

Do they have cooler techno toys at CIA? Like a Get Smart shoe phone? That would be cool. Perhaps painful, but cool.

Answer 8

cia

Answer 9

I would rather work for and unnamed agency
or a senator

black ops

Answer 10

FBI