U.S. allowed Pakistan to acquire nuclear technology without informing Congress

The U.S. allowed Pakistan to manufacture and acquire nuclear weapons without informing the Congress, the Ploughshares-funded Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has said, quoting a whistleblower who was fired for objecting to the policy. “As a CIA intelligence officer and later in the Pentagon, Rich Barlow learned that top US officials were allowing Pakistan to manufacture and possess nuclear weapons,” Danielle Brian, executive director of POGO, told a Congressional hearing last week. “Barlow also discovered that U.S. officials were hiding these activities from Congress. Barlow objected and suggested to his supervisors that Congress should be made aware of the situation... he was fired,” Brian told US lawmakers in her testimony during a hearing.