CIA Director John Ratcliffe hopes his close relationship with President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, leads to deeper cooperation between the intelligence and law enforcement behemoths, Ratcliffe told Breitbart News exclusively.
Ratcliffe said he hopes that renewed cooperation between the CIA and the FBI under his and Patel’s leadership of the respective agencies might lead to better results for the American people.
“When we go back to this issue about the president’s America First agenda and the good things we can do and how the CIA can contribute to that, I think we’ve got a historic opportunity,” Ratcliffe said in his first interview as CIA director with Breitbart News last week. “Historically, the CIA and the FBI have been at odds with one another. As you know, part of the reason 9/11 was an intelligence failure was the FBI had some intelligence on hijackers and the CIA had some intelligence on hijackers and because of territorial wars and some of the other things that were in place they didn’t share it with each other in a way that could have prevented it. We know that.
“When I think about Kash Patel coming as the FBI director, Kash and I worked together as you know to expose the whole Russia collusion hoax. We worked together to expose law enforcement abuses with FISA authorities. We worked together to expose efforts within the Intelligence Community and law enforcement communities to politicize intelligence and mislead the public.