Accountability Office Finds Itself Accused

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A senior Congressional investigator has accused his agency of covering up a scientific fraud among builders of a $26 billion system meant to shield the nation from nuclear attack. The disputed weapon is the centerpiece of the Bush administration's antimissile plan, which is expected to cost more than $250 billion over the next two decades.

The investigator, Subrata Ghoshroy of the Government Accountability Office, led technical analyses of a prototype warhead for the antimissile weapon in an 18-month study, winning awards for his "great care" and "tremendous skill and patience."

Mr. Ghoshroy now says his agency ignored evidence that the two main contractors had doctored data, skewed test results and made false statements in a 2002 report that credited the contractors with revealing the warhead's failings to the government.

The agency strongly denied his accusations, insisting that its antimissile report was impartial and that it was right to exonerate the contractors of a coverup.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/washington/02missile.html?ex=1301634000&en=84344b35208b12fe&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[Wilber_Stool]

1. Haven't we all known this since Raygun

started it 20 years ago?

[McCamy Taylor]

2. WOW. GAO used to deter whistleblowers!!!!!! Must read!

That is the gist of this cover up. No one in the current administration gives a rat's ass if Boeing committed fraud. Halliburton has done worse and is God as far as government contracts as concerned. What the GAO did was create a fraudulent investigation in order to wreck a whistleblowers lawsuit in order to discourage anyone else in the federal government from filing a whistleblowers lawsuit.