David Buckley

The CIA's Inspector General will resign this month but US officials said on Monday his departure is not related to his finding last year that the spy agency hacked into computers used by Senate aides.

The CIA's insistence that it did not spy on its US Senate overseers collapsed Thursday with the release of a stark report by the agency's internal watchdog documenting improper computer surveillance and obstructionist behavior by CIA officers.

The CIA's Inspector General will resign this month but US officials said on Monday his departure is not related to his finding last year that the spy agency hacked into computers used by Senate aides.

The CIA's insistence that it did not spy on its US Senate overseers collapsed Thursday with the release of a stark report by the agency's internal watchdog documenting improper computer surveillance and obstructionist behavior by CIA officers.