Weapons Complex Monitor
December 19, 2012
Tauscher Favors More Autonomous NNSA
Former
Congresswoman and Under Secretary of State Ellen Tauscher weighed in on
NNSA governance during a speech at the American Security Project
yesterday, suggesting that she supported much of the reform language in
the House and ultimately said she’d favor making NNSA an autonomous
agency that reports to the Energy Secretary without the baggage of DOE
bureaucracy. As a California Congresswoman [her district included LLNL],
Tauscher was instrumental in creating the NNSA in 1999, and she said
NNSA could be structured like NASA or the Securities Exchange
Commission, with a link to the Energy Secretary and “understanding that
this is so important that the President has to be involved at times, and
maybe with a director that is somebody with a real pedigree that gets
appointed, like the FBI director, for 10 years so that there’s not a
question of in and out and up and down.”
6 comments:
There are worse ideas out there, but you would have to look hard to find them. This will just make the problems worse. Thanks for nothing, Tauscher!
If Tauscher think this is how the NNSA should be structured, she and St. Pete should have formed it that way in the beginning.
In a sense, it makes NNSA seem to be an entity onto itself - one does not usually think of NASA's chain of command, simply that NASA is its own boss. In a sense, it raises the NNSA from the red headed step child to something more distinguished. Maybe it should be done, but take a stiff broom and sweep out the people staffing this travesty of a department. No sense in making them think that they are getting a promotion.
The problem with NNSA began when it was formed. The same retards who couldn't run the weapons complex as DOE changed their letterhead and office symbols. Why would anyone expect a different result that what we have?
Tauscher may now see the error of creating NNSA but two wrongs don't make a right. The issue is not the autonomy of the organization, rather it is the accountability of those in charge.
Giving MORE autonomy to NNSA? Isn't that "cutting the fox loose in the henhouse".
Why is the discussion around fixing NNSA, when the NNSA labs and facilities are as screwed up, if not more.
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