Christopher Sharpley

Christopher Sharpley
Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency
Nominee
Assumed office
Pending Senate confirmation
President Donald Trump
Acting Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency
Assumed office
February 2015
President Barack Obama, Donald Trump
Preceded by David Buckley[1]
Deputy Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency
Assumed office
July 2012
President Barack Obama, Donald Trump
Personal details
Education American University
Naval Postgraduate School

Christopher R. Sharpley is the Acting Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since 2015. He was nominated by President Donald Trump in September 2017 to become Inspector General of the CIA.[2]

Biography

Sharpley received an M.A. from the Naval Postgraduate School and a B.A. from American University.[3]

In his first leadership function, Sharpley was a Director of Security Operations in the United States Air Force. Afterwards, he became the Deputy Inspector General for Investigations and Inspections at the United States Department of Energy.[3]

He then became Deputy Inspector General for Investigations at the Federal Housing Finance Authority[4] and Deputy Special Inspector General for Investigations[5] for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP). In this capacity, he was responsible for the coordination of combined teams of special agents, investigators, analysts, and attorney advisors who as experienced financial and corporate fraud investigators conducted criminal investigations into persons in or out of government who misused or even stole TARP funds.[6] He was part of an investigation into the collapse of a proposed partnership between Colonial BancGroup, Florida's sixth-largest bank, and a mortgage lender, Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, based in Ocala, Florida, that could have brought the entities more than $500 million in federal bailout money.[7]

Since July 2012 he has been Deputy Inspector General at the CIA,[8] becoming for a surprisingly long time the acting successor of Inspector General David Buckley[9] who retired in January 2015,[10] as Shirley Woodward, nominated by President Barack Obama in June 2016, was pending her Senate approval.[11]

In 2016, Sharpley uploaded a report about the CIA's earlier torture practices to the office's internal computer network and then destroyed the hard disk, following standard protocol. Another employee then inadvertently deleted the software copy from the server.[12]

On January 3, 2017, without having held any hearing, the outgoing Senate sent Woodward's nomination back to the President,[13] enabling Sharpley to stay Acting Inspector General. On September 5, 2017, new President Donald Trump nominated him to the post;[14] in October 2017, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on Sharpley's nomination.[15][16]

References

  1. ↑ HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, congress.gov, September 21, 2010, retrieved January 4, 2010
  2. ↑ Giaritelli, Anna (September 1, 2017). "Trump picks 42 key administration nominees, including heads of NASA and Office of National Drug Control Policy". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts". The White House. September 2, 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ↑ "Case 1:11" (PDF). Office of Inspector General. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Special Inspector General for Troubled Asset Relief Program". The Federal Register. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Quarterly Report to Congress April 21, 2009" (PDF). Office of the Special Inspector General. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Agents Raid Bank and Lender in Florida". The New York Times. 3 August 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  8. ↑ CIA watchdog nominee scolded for lack of preparation, apnews.com, 18 October 2017, retrieved 4 January 2018
  9. ↑ "Leadership". Central Intelligence Agency. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  10. ↑ CIA Inspector General David Buckley to Resign, time.com, January 6, 2015, retrieved January 4, 2017
  11. ↑ Chowdhry, Aisha (June 17, 2016). "Obama taps former spy as CIA watchdog". FCW. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  12. ↑ "CIA watchdog 'accidentally destroyed' copy of 'torture report'". The Hill. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  13. ↑ PN1549 — Shirley Woodward — Central Intelligence, congress.gov, 3 January 2017, retrieved 4 January 2018
  14. ↑ PN925 — Christopher R. Sharpley — Central Intelligence, 17 October 2017, retrieved 4 January 2018
  15. ↑ "Senate Intel to Hold Confirmation Hearing Next Week for CIA Inspector General Nominee Christopher Sharpley". Richard Burr. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  16. ↑ "PN925 — Christopher R. Sharpley — Central Intelligence". Congress Gov. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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