Energy Panel Faulted on Information Safeguards

The New York Times: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may not have adequate controls to protect information that could be used to sabotage the power grid, the Energy Department’s inspector general said on Wednesday. The inspector general, Gregory H. Friedman, issued a “management alert” that was a veiled slap at a former chairman of the commission, Jon Wellinghoff, who has been arguing that an attack last year on a California substation was an act of terrorism, a conclusion that the F.B.I. and local law enforcement officials have refused to endorse.

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