Inspector General of the Department of State

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Inspector General of the
United States Department of State
2018 OIG Seal .png
Seal of the Office of Inspector General
Incumbent
Diana Shaw
Acting
since December 11, 2020
Reports toUnited States Secretary of State
Inaugural holder
Formation1957
WebsiteOfficial website

The inspector general of the Department of State heads the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State and is responsible for detecting and investigating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the United States Department of State. In the department, the inspector general has a rank equivalent to assistant secretary.[1][2]

List of inspectors general of the Department of State[]

Name Assumed office Left office President served under
November 19, 1957 October 31, 1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gerald A. Drew November 13, 1960 May 31, 1962 Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy
June 10, 1962 July 31, 1964 John F. Kennedy
Fraser Wilkins July 23, 1964 August 8, 1971 John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon
Thomas W. McElhiney July 1, 1971 July 18, 1973 Richard Nixon
James S. Sutterlin October 15, 1973 August 31, 1974 Richard Nixon
William E. Schaufele, Jr. April 16, 1975 November 29, 1975 Gerald Ford
Robert M. Sayre November 25, 1975 May 1, 1978 Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. July 5, 1978 October 16, 1978 Jimmy Carter
Robert C. Brewster January 15, 1979 January 18, 1981 Jimmy Carter
July 7, 1981 June 30, 1983 Ronald Reagan
William Caldwell Harrop December 12, 1983 August 27, 1986 Ronald Reagan
August 14, 1987 February 15, 1994 Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton
Jacquelyn L. Williams-Bridgers April 7, 1995 January 31, 2001 Bill Clinton
Anne Marie Sigmund
(acting) 		February 4, 2001 August 3, 2001 George W. Bush
Clark Ervin
(acting) 		August 3, 2001 January 23, 2003 George W. Bush
Anne Marie Sigmund
(acting) 		January 24, 2003 September 28, 2003 George W. Bush
Anne W. Patterson
(acting) 		September 28, 2003 August 3, 2004 George W. Bush
John E. Lange
(acting) 		August 3, 2004 August 23, 2004 George W.Bush
Cameron R. Hume
(acting) 		August 23, 2004 May 2, 2005 George W. Bush
Howard Krongard May 2, 2005 January 15, 2008 George W. Bush
Harold W. Geisel
(acting) 		June 2, 2008[3] September 30, 2013 George W. Bush and Barack Obama
Steve A. Linick September 30, 2013[4] May 15, 2020[5] Barack Obama and Donald Trump
Stephen Akard
(acting) 		May 15, 2020 August 7, 2020[6] Donald Trump
Diana Shaw
(acting) 		August 7, 2020 August 31, 2020 Donald Trump
Matthew Klimow

(acting)

August 31, 2020 December 11, 2020[7] Donald Trump
Diana Shaw
(acting) 		August 31, 2020 Present Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Obama and Trump administrations[]

Harold W. Geisel served as acting inspector general during Hillary Clinton's service as Secretary of State.[1], which lasted until February 1, 2013.[8] There was no permanent inspector general at the State Department while Clinton was Secretary, nor did President Barack Obama nominate anyone for that position.[9] Later in 2013, Obama nominated Steve A. Linick, and the Senate confirmed Linick to the role.

Linick served as inspector general for the balance of Obama's term, continuing into the presidency of Donald Trump. On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 10 p.m., the White House announced that Linick had been removed.[10] The White House said Trump had dismissed Linick at the request of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Linick had been conducting several investigations into actions by Pompeo.[11][12][13] Trump appointed Stephen Akard, who was concurrently serving as the director of the State Department's Office of Foreign Missions, as acting inspector general.[14] Akard served as acting inspector general less than three months before resigning.[15] Deputy Inspector General Diana Shaw then became acting inspector general.[16]

References[]

  1. ^ "Assistant Secretaries and Equivalent Rank". January 20, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  2. ^ "Department Organization Chart". March 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  3. ^ "Harold W. Geisel". U.S. Department of State Archive. June 19, 2008. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  4. ^ "Steve A. Linick, Inspector General". U.S. Department of State. September 30, 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  5. ^ McGraw, Meridith; Toosi, Nahal (May 15, 2020). "Trump ousts State Department watchdog". POLITICO. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  6. ^ Hudson, John (August 5, 2020). "State Department watchdog resigns in another shake-up at IG's office". Washington Post. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  7. ^ "State Department watchdog steps down after Pompeo rails at report on investigation into wife's travel". www.msn.com. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  8. ^ Cohen, Tom (February 1, 2013). "Clinton's farewell marred by embassy bombing". CNN. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  9. ^ Tau, Byron and Nicholas, Peter. "State Department Lacked Top Watchdog During Hillary Clinton Tenure", Wall Street Journal (March 24, 2015).
  10. ^ Blake, Aaron (May 18, 2020). "Trump's slow-motion Friday night massacre of inspectors general". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  11. ^ Kimball, Spencer (May 16, 2020). "Mike Pompeo recommended Trump firing of State Department inspector general, White House says". CNBC. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  12. ^ Wong, Edward; Sanger, David E. (May 19, 2020). "State Dept. Investigator Fired by Trump Had Examined Weapons Sales to Saudis and Emiratis". The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  13. ^ "Pompeo's elite taxpayer-funded dinners raise new concerns". NBC News. May 19, 2020. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  14. ^ Toosi, Nahal (June 23, 2020). "Acting watchdog recuses himself from 2 Pompeo probes". Politico. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  15. ^ Atwood, Kylie; Hansler, Jennifer (August 5, 2020). "Acting State Department watchdog resigns months after previous inspector general was fired". CNN. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  16. ^ Hudson, John (August 2, 2020). "State Department watchdog resigns in another shake-up at IG's office". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 6, 2020.

External links[]

Retrieved from ""