Congressional oversight office at NSA headquarters sits empty

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Congressional oversight office at NSA headquarters sits empty
Nick Juliano
Published: Tuesday March 4, 2008

With lack of requests from Congress, GAO staff would 'twiddle their thumbs'
The Government Accountability Office -- Congress's investigative arm -- has an office at the super-secretive National Security Agency's headquarters, but it keeps no staff there because lawmakers have not made enough oversight requests, the agency's head told Congress last week.

“We still actually do have space at the NSA. We just don’t use it and the reason we don’t use it is we’re not getting any requests, you know," Comptroller General David M. Walker told a Senate subcommittee Friday. "So I don’t want to have people sitting out there twiddling their thumbs."

Walker's comments were reported by Steven Aftergood at Secrecy News, the blog he runs as director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. Aftergood also testified at the Senate Homeland Security oversight subcommittee hearing.