America's nuclear secrets are vulnerable to fraudsters and spies, watchdog report says

A new watchdog report says the federal agency that keeps the nation's nuclear secrets has failed to establish an "insider threat" program to guard against fraudsters, leakers and spies in its midst, a decade after a presidential order to do so. The bluntly-worded report by the Government Accountability Office says the Energy Department has for years failed to act on recommendations from four independent reviewers pointing to gaping holes in its efforts to create an insider threat program. And it notes that it in 2017, the most recent year data was available, there were about 250 unclassified insider threat-related security…