The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the CIA collect and gather... and don't prosecute.

Russian Intelligence has made an art form of NOT getting caught in either overt or covert operations around the world. So it is a sport between the two to see who can out covert each other. The murdered man in Kiev -- The poisoning and near death of a political opponent in Russia less he try to compete with Putin ...

Watergate, had a start and a finish to a crime followed by who knew and when... a tidy crime by rookies.

This is stuff that got refined during the Cold War - not getting caught is what its all about. Arrogance counts
  
"Back in 2005 Patriots owner Robert Kraft was in Russia when...: Russian president Vladimir Putin stole his $25,000 Super Bowl XXXIX ring. "I took out the ring and showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this ring,'"   "I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out."  
Game on...