Joel Brenner is a senior research fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies. He previously served as Senior Counselor and Inspector General in the National Security Agency and head of US Counterintelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
This episode references:
- "Fired Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson Pushes Back On His Dismissal" NPR, April 3, 2020
- Inspector General Act of 1978 (As Amended)
- CIA Inspector General Act of 1989
- ODNI Inspector General authorized in IRTPA 2004
- Tenure of Office Act, 1867-1887
- Myers v. U.S., 47 S. Ct. 21 (1926)
- Humphrey’s Executor, 295 U.S. 602 (1935)
- Morrison v. Olson 487 U.S. 654 (1988)
- 50 USC 3033 Inspector General of the Intelligence Community
- Vacancies Act of 1998
- Executive Order 12356
- Executive Order 13848
- 31 CFR 579.201
- "Forty Years After Church-Pike: What’s Different Now?" Joel Brenner, May 15, 2015