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The CIA Office of Inspector General exists to perform an
inspector general (IG) function at the
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
.
The first IG was appointed in 1952.
The 1970s
The
Rockefeller Commission #REDIRECT United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States #REDIRECT United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States
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Church Committee, and
Pike Committee The Pike Committee is the common name for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the period when it was chaired by Democratic Representative Otis G. Pike of New York. Under Pike's chairmanship, the committee inv ...
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
The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (sometimes referred to as the Intelligence Committee or SSCI) is dedicated to overseeing the United States Intelligence Community—the agencies and bureaus of the federal government of ...
(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
George Bush.
Senator Boren (chairman of the SSCI) worked with
Robert Gates
Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American intelligence analyst and university president who served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011. He was originally appointed by president George W. Bush a ...
who was deputy to
Brent Scowcroft
Brent Scowcroft (; March 19, 1925August 6, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer who was a two-time United States National Security Advisor, first under U.S. President Gerald Ford and then under George H. W. Bush. He served as Military As ...
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
Director of Central Intelligence but would instead be appointed by the President with the "
advice and consent
Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts. It describes either of two situations: where a weak executive branch of a government enacts something prev ...
" of the Senate.
Global War on Terror
There were several controversies surrounding the IG during the years of the Global
War on Terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campaign are militant ...
.
The IG released a controversial report on failures of the intelligence community before 9/11.
[Miller, 2007]
IG staff
Mary O. McCarthy
Mary O'Neil McCarthy (born 1945) is a former United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who last worked in the Office of the Inspector General. In her career, she was an intelligence analyst and national intelligence officer for war ...
was fired in 2006.
In 2007
General Michael Hayden
Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intellige ...
, head of the CIA, had attorney
Robert Deitz
Robert L. Deitz (born February 7, 1946) is an American lawyer and former intelligence officer who served as Senior Counsel to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and General Counsel of the National Security Agency during the directors ...
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
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campaign are militant ...
. It was entitled "CIA Inspector General Special Review: Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities". After a
Freedom of Information Act Freedom of Information Act may refer to the following legislations in different jurisdictions which mandate the national government to disclose certain data to the general public upon request:
* Freedom of Information Act 1982, the Australian act
* ...
lawsuit by the
American Civil Liberties Union
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, a less redacted version was declassified in 2009 and released to the public.
List of Inspectors General
*
Donald F. Chamberlain July 1973-1976
*
John H. Waller 1976 July - ?
[Council of the Inspectors General, ]
Inspector General Historical Data
'', 2007 May
*Charles A. Briggs 1980 January - ?
[
* James H. Taylor (CIA official) 1982 September - ?][
* John H. Stein 1984 July - ?][
* Carroll L. Hauver 1985 December - ?][
* William F. Donnelly 1988 January - ?][
*William F. Donnelly (Acting) 1989 December - ?][
* Frederick P. Hitz 1990 November - 1998 ][
* Dawn Ellison (Acting) 1998 May - ?][
*L. Britt Snider 1998 August - 2001][
* Rebecca Donegan (Acting) January 2001 - ?][
*Rebecca Donegan (Deputy Inspector General) November 2001 - ?][
*George Clark (Acting Deputy Inspector General) 2002 January - ?][
* John L. Helgerson 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]
See also
* Inspector General
* Inspector General Act of 1978
The Inspector General Act of 1978 is a United States federal law () defining a standard set of Inspector General offices across several specified departments of the U.S. federal government.
The Act specifically creates Inspector General positi ...
* CIA's relationship with the United States Congress
There have been various arrangements to handle the Central Intelligence Agency's relationship with the United States Congress.
The formal liaison began some time before the 1960s, with a single position named the 'legislative liaison'. This later ...
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