Intelligence reform at the Dept. of Energy: Policy issues and organizational alternatives (PDF; 165 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce)
From press release:

The Committee on Energy and Commerce today released a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report that shows the Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to consolidate and streamline its counterintelligence program may be veering off course, potentially jeopardizing its ability to protect some of the country=s most sensitive national security secrets from foreign intelligence services.

“This CRS study raises some troubling questions about the state of DOE’s counterintelligence program and the need for Congress to look more closely at how it is functioning,” said Dingell. “We’d like to examine the extent to which DOE shares these concerns and whether any of these issues have been addressed. I plan to work with my colleagues to conduct a thorough review of how the Department of Energy protects our nation’s secrets to ensure that the alleged ‘reforms’ promulgated by this Administration have not made things worse.”

“The report demonstrates why some of the concerns raised about DOE’s counterintelligence program should be examined more closely,” Barton said. “Given DOE’s record of treating secrets at the Los Alamos National Laboratory like leftover napkins, we could all use some reassurance that security problems haven’t infected the department’s counterintelligence programs, too. This report shows us what we need to find out.”

The report comes a decade after intelligence evidence surfaced indicating that China successfully stole nuclear weapons secrets from DOE’s weapons complex prompting a congressionally mandated overhaul of the Department’s counterintelligence program.

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