FCC Shares EAS Test Results With GAO

The Government Accountability Office, an independent investigative arm of Congress, is getting a peek at the confidential data from cable operators, broadcasters and others that the Federal Communications Commission collected as part of its test of the Emergency Alert System. The FCC promised that test performance info related to the Nov. 9, 2011, test would be confidential and not released to the public, but that apparently does not mean it can't be shared with GAO.