DoE Intelligence Embraces Discredited Budget Secrecy Policy
Secrecy News reports:
The Department of Energy Office of Intelligence has reverted to a policy of budget secrecy that it rejected more than a decade ago.For as long as anyone can remember, the small DOE intelligence unit always had an unclassified budget (around $40 million in recent years). . .
. . .In 2004, the 9/11 Commission recommended that all U.S. intelligence agencies should do what INR and DOE Intelligence had long done, and disclose their annual budget totals. . .
. . . Other agencies simply ignored the 9/11 Commission's recommendation. But amazingly, DOE responded by doing the exact opposite of what the 9/11 Commission said was necessary.
Boldly striving for mediocrity, DOE began to classify its intelligence budget figure in Fiscal Year 2005.