The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) quietly released a list this week with the names of its recently classified reports. But some in Congress aren’t too happy about it. The publication of the list took about a year of negotiations between the GAO and Congress.
As the Federation of American Scientists notes, quoting an anonymous Congressional staffer, the release of this list, “was not necessarily universally desired by everyone in Congress.” But you can bet that this is a rather diplomatic way of putting it.
The list is just names and dates of reports that have been published by the GAO — the agency that’s charged with keeping American government agencies themselves accountable in cases of vulnerability and malfeasance. Like that time in 2010 when they revealed the EPA’s Energy Star program was a scam. The GAO set up a fake company and got Energy Star certification for a gas-powered alarm clock and an “air purifier” that was just a space heater with a feather duster taped to it. Seriously.
The content of this new list covers everything from Iran sanctions to Navy drone systems to fears over the Department of Defence’s access to cutting-edge microelectronics. We can’t read the reports, but the titles themselves give clues to what the GAO has been working on.
Other reports include titles like, “Information Security: FAA Needs to Address Weaknesses in Air Traffic Control Systems,” and “Defence Infrastructure: Improvements in DOD Reporting and Cybersecurity Implementation Needed to Enhance Utility Resilience Planning.” For the full article click here
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