The CIA Office of Inspector General exists to perform an

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(IG) function at the Central Intelligence Agency. The first IG was appointed in 1952.

The 1970s

The Rockefeller Commission,

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, and Pike Committee all recommended strengthening the office of OIG. Their criticisms included claims that the IG had few staff, was ignored, and was denied access to information. Their suggestions were not made into law.

1980s

The CIA OIG investigation of the Iran Contra scandal was criticized in the final report of the Congressional investigation of the Iran-Contra affair. Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (especially Boren, Cohen, Specter, and Glenn) wrestled with how to improve the IG while not interfering with the work of the CIA. They tried to make a bill that would satisfy various members of Congress and also not be vetoed by president

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. Senator Boren (chairman of the SSCI) worked with Robert Gates who was deputy to Brent Scowcroft at the time. In 1989 a new IG law was passed creating a more independent IG. The IG also would no longer be chosen by the

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but would instead be appointed by the President with the " advice and consent" of the Senate.

Global War on Terror

There were several controversies surrounding the IG during the years of the Global War on Terror. The IG released a controversial report on failures of the intelligence community before 9/11.Miller, 2007 IG staff Mary O. McCarthy was fired in 2006. In 2007

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, head of the CIA, had attorney Robert Deitz review the work of the IG.

2004 Inspector General Report

In 2004 the CIA OIG published a report on prisoner treatment in the Global War on Terror. It was entitled "CIA Inspector General Special Review: Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities". After a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, a less redacted version was declassified in 2009 and released to the public.

List of Inspectors General

Donald F. Chamberlain July 1973-1976 Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...

* John H. Waller 1976 July - ? Council of the Inspectors General,
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'', 2007 May *Charles A. Briggs 1980 January - ? * James H. Taylor (CIA official) 1982 September - ? *

John H. Stein John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Seco ...

1984 July - ? *

Carroll L. Hauver Carroll may refer to: People * Carroll (given name) * Carroll (surname) * O'Carroll, also known as Carroll, a Gaelic Irish clan * Mac Cearbhaill, anglicised as Carroll, a Gaelic Irish clan * Charles Carroll Webster (1824-1893), American lawyer ...

1985 December - ? *

William F. Donnelly William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conqu ...

1988 January - ? *William F. Donnelly (Acting) 1989 December - ? *

Frederick P. Hitz Frederick Porter Hitz (born 14 October 1939) is an author and former Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Hitz graduated from Princeton University and the Harvard School of Law. Hitz entered the CIA in 1967 as an operati ...

1990 November - 1998 * Dawn Ellison (Acting) 1998 May - ? *L. Britt Snider 1998 August - 2001 *

Rebecca Donegan Rebecca, ; Syriac: , ) from the Hebrew (lit., 'connection'), from Semitic root , 'to tie, couple or join', 'to secure', or 'to snare') () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to bib ...

(Acting) January 2001 - ? *Rebecca Donegan (Deputy Inspector General) November 2001 - ? *George Clark (Acting Deputy Inspector General) 2002 January - ? *

John L. Helgerson John L. Helgerson is a retired career intelligence officer who spent 38 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, his final role was CIA Inspector General from 2002 until his retirement in 2009. He was responsible for investigating CIA interrogati ...

April 2002 - March 2009 * Patricia Lewis (acting) April 2009 - October 2010 * David Buckley 2010 October- January 31, 2015 * Christopher Sharpley (Acting) February 1, 2015 - September 9, 2017 * Cristine Ruppert (Acting Deputy Inspector General) ? - June 28, 2021 * Robin Ashton June 28, 2021 - Present

References

External links

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