WASHINGTON, January 5 (Sputnik) — The CIA Inspector General who found the agency guilty of spying on the US Senate Intelligence Committee will leave his current position for a job in the private sector, the CIA announced on Monday.
The fact of CIA's engagement in espionage was revealed during the investigation of the CIA torture report, issued by the US Senate in December 2014.
Buckley, who spent 35 years working for the federal government, will be replaced temporarily by Acting CIA Inspector General Christopher Sharpley who currently serves as the Deputy Inspector General.
"David [Buckley] has made important contributions to the Agency and strengthened the Office of Inspector General, improving its ability to uncover and prevent waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement," CIA Director John Brennan said in a statement on Monday.
In March 2014, US Democratic Senator of California Dianne Feinstein spoke out on the Senate floor about the CIA's monitoring of Senate staffers computers and sabotage the committee's investigation into the agency's interrogation and torture program.
Months later in July, Buckley publicly released his investigation which confirmed that the CIA had spied on the US Senate and found that the agency had inappropriately searched Intelligence Committee's computers.
