{"id":198748,"date":"2007-10-12T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/12\/cia-director-hayden-on-jihad-against-cia-inspector-general\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T22:34:00","slug":"cia-director-hayden-on-jihad-against-cia-inspector-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/12\/cia-director-hayden-on-jihad-against-cia-inspector-general\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Director Hayden on Jihad Against CIA Inspector General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/11\/washington\/12intel.html?hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1192197767-Ut5j7UPi\/YNU4+rCKmZr\/w\">General Haden has ordered an inquiry into the work of the CIA&#8217;s Inspector General, John L. Helgerson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Any move by the agency\u2019s director to examine the work of the inspector general would be unusual, if not unprecedented, and would threaten to undermine the independence of the office, some current and former officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick P. Hitz, who served as C.I.A. inspector general from 1990 to 1998, said he had no first-hand information about current conflicts inside the agency. But Mr. Hitz said any move by the agency\u2019s director to examine the work of the inspector general would \u201cnot be proper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a terrible idea,\u201d said Mr. Hitz, who now teaches at the University of Virginia. \u201cUnder 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.?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is clearly an attempt to intimidate or remove the inspector general.  It&#8217;s pretty much unprecedented, and it is profoundly antithetical to the most basic sort of principals of bureaucratic accountability, so it&#8217;s pretty certain that Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&trade;<\/sup> have knowledge of and approved this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Haden has ordered an inquiry into the work of the CIA&#8217;s Inspector General, John L. Helgerson. Any move by the agency\u2019s director to examine the work of the inspector general would be unusual, if not unprecedented, and would threaten to undermine the independence of the office, some current and former officials say. Frederick P. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1102,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-intelligence","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}