Congressional auditors have found "serious" problems with an Energy Department nonproliferation program to redirect Soviet-era weapons scientists into commercial employment, saying DoE has overstated its accomplishments, paid salaries to Russian scientists who have no weapons expertise and funneled program money to its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership initiative and projects in Iraq and Libya without congressional approval. Investigators with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the auditing arm of Congress, also said that while the Russian economy is now booming--and top Russian…
DoE Nonproliferation Program Funding GNEP, Iraq Projects–GAO
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