State versus CIA has been a behind the scenes argument for years. State (can’t we all get along) versus CIA (we’ll kill you if you don’t act the way we want you to).
State seems to have an over abundance of liberals in it and CIA has more conservative members so they’ve had different goals and philosophies. Conservative Secretaries of State have often had problems with State employees doing things on their own to the detriment of our country.
General Hayden brushing off Benghazi as a told you so dispute was pretty devastating. Of course CIA was going to tell them not to go there on 9/11 without enough force, but Hillary knew better.
That was the dispute.