Eric M. Thorson is the Inspector General

Inspector General

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 for the United States Treasury Department. He currently oversees the Troubled Asset Relief Program and has called oversight of this program "a mess".

Career

• Thorson is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy
  United States Air Force Academy
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• He served in the Department of the Air Force
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   as Acting Assistant Secretary and twice as Deputy Assistant Secretary.
• Special Assistant to the Senate Republican Leader, Chief Investigator for the Senate Finance Committee and Chief Investigator for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
• Office of Personnel Management
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   (worked as a Senior Advisor to the Director for Investigative Operations and Agency Planning)
• Inspector General for the Small Business Administration
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Inspector General of the Treasury

Thorson was nominated to be Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury by President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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 on November 15, 2007 and confirmed by the United States Senate

United States Senate

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on August 1, 2008. He was sworn into office on August 12, 2008.

External links

• US Treasury bio