L. Britt Snider

L. Britt Snider (spook)
Member of	9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry
Participated in the Church Committee and took part in the 9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry, but resigned.  Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency In office August 3, 1998 - January 22, 2001 Preceded by Dawn Ellison Succeeded by Rebecca Donegan

L. Britt Snider participated in the Church Committee and took part in the 9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry, but resigned after less than three months.

Career

Snider was offered a staff position on the Church Committee, set up by Congress in 1975, focusing on CIA subversion of foreign governments and spying on American citizens. As part of the Church Committee, Snider helped reveal the SHAMROCK surveillance of US citizens.

Snider and a colleague named Peter Fenn were told to look into the NSA, but they had no evidence that the NSA even did anything wrong.

 Unlike the CIA and FBI, which were the agencies principally in the Committee's sights—thanks to a number of sensational press accounts—there had been no press exposés about NSA. Our supervisor, in fact, seemed to take particular delight in pitting Pete and me against this mysterious Goliath. "They call it 'No Such Agency,'" he said. "Let's see what you boys can find out about it." It was the first time I had heard the agency referred to this way, and it was not long before I understood why. What ensued was something of an odyssey that lasted over the better part of a year. It began with a series of fruitless, sometimes comical, efforts to penetrate NSA's defenses. ("They must have done something," our boss wailed.)

9/11 Joint Congressional Inquiry

He later worked in the CIA as Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Full article: 9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry

Snider took part in the 9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry, but resigned after less than three months. The LA Times claimed that "congressional sources confirmed that Snider was forced out amid growing concerns with his management of the investigation ranging from the tone of his leadership to his personnel decisions. Several sources said Snider's resignation was sparked by troubling questions that surfaced in recent weeks about whether one or more of his hires lacked clearances to view classified material. There were also complaints about Snider's perceived reluctance to cause trouble for his former colleagues at the CIA."

Publications

Snider wrote The Agency and the Hill.

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