Inspectors General: Oversight, Authority, and Removal with Joel Brenner

The black letter law and articles referenced in this episode: "Fired Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson Pushes Back On His Dismissal" https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/827195027/president-trump-fires-intelligence-community-inspector-general-michael-atkinson Inspector General Act of 1978 (As Amended) https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title5/title5a/node20&edition=prelim CIA Inspector General Act of 1989 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-103/pdf/STATUTE-103-Pg1701.pdf ODNI Inspector General position created in IRTPA 2004 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ458/pdf/PLAW-108publ458.pdf Tenure of Office Act, 1867-1887 https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Johnson_TenureofOfficeAct.pdf Myers v. U.S., 47 S. Ct. 21 (1926) https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/272us52 Humphrey’s Executor, 295 U.S. 602 (1935) https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/295us602 Morrison v. Olson 487 U.S. 654 (1988) https://www.oyez.org/cases/1987/87-1279 50 USC 3033 Inspector General of the Intelligence Community https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3033 Vacancies Act of 1998 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3345 EO 12356 https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12356.html EO 13848 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/ 31 CFR 579.201 https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=5c29d1f87959d157585373fd9bd4ec3f&mc=true&node=se31.3.579_1201&rgn=div8 "Forty Years After Church-Pike: What’s Different Now?" Joel Brenner, May 15, 2015 https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/nsa-speech-may-15-brenner.pdf Joel Brenner is a senior research fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies http://cis.mit.edu/people/joel-brenner