(Scypre.com) – Senator Jim Risch and some other politicians wrote a letter to the head of the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm.
They’re worried because the director of a part called the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Steven Black, was suddenly given a different job in the Energy Department without a good reason.
In their letter, they mentioned that there’s a report from an outside group that the Department has known about since April.
This report talks about some serious problems with how the Department is protecting important information, especially in places called national laboratories.
The letter says, “The Department of Energy and the research it supports are very important for our country’s safety. The things in the report that Congress asked for are really troubling.”
The senators who signed the letter think that if Steven Black was in charge of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence when these problems were happening, then he shouldn’t be in any important job related to the safety of our country.
Two of the senators who signed the letter, John Barrasso and Marco Rubio, are especially important because they are part of committees that deal with energy and intelligence.
They want to know why Steven Black was moved to a different job after working in the same job for 11 years. They also want to know if the report had anything to do with this decision and what exactly Steven Black’s new job is.
They’re asking for information about when the Department got the report in April and what the Department thinks about the things the report says.