Who Polices The Police (the CIA IG) ?
By Big Tent Democrat, Section War on Terror
Posted on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 09:15:53 AM EST
Tags: CIA (all tags)
Posted on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 09:15:53 AM EST
Tags: CIA (all tags)
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Via Spencer Ackerman, this is just rich:
CIA Director Michael Hayden is going after the agency's independent watchdog, Inspector General John Helgerson. Hayden wonders if Helgerson -- who is not appointed by the CIA director -- hasn't gone too far in investigating how the agency conducts detentions and interrogations. . . . Helgerson has for years been perceived as overly aggressive in reviewing CIA techniques in the war on terrorism.. . . [T]he investigation, headed by Hayden confidante Robert L. Deitz, is now a full-fledged exploration of how Helgerson conducts his work. It comes as Helgerson is "nearing completion" on several reports into interrogations, renditions, and detentions, reports The New York Times.
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. . . Frederick P. Hitz, a CIA IG in the 90s, blasted the inquiry in the NYT:Mr. Hitz said any move by the agency’s director to examine the work of the inspector general would “not be proper.” “I think it’s a terrible idea,” said Mr. Hitz, who now teaches at the University of Virginia. “Under the statute, the inspector general has the right to investigate the director. How can you do that and have the director turn around and investigate the I.G.?”
Who polices the police? Apparently, those subject to investigation get to turn the tables. Incredible.
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