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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 09:28 AM
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NASA Appointees Altered News Releases that Conflicted with Bush Policy
NASA Political Appointees Altered News Releases That Could Have Conflicted With Bush Admin. Policies...
NY Times | ANDREW C. REVKIN | February 16, 2006 at 09:10 AM

Top political appointees in the NASA press office exerted strong pressure during the 2004 presidential campaign to cut the flow of news releases on glaciers, climate, pollution and other earth sciences, public affairs officers at the agency say.

The disclosure comes nearly two weeks after the NASA administrator, Michael D. Griffin, called for "scientific openness" at the agency. In response to that, researchers and public affairs workers at the agency have described in fresh detail how political appointees altered or limited news releases on scientific findings that could have conflicted with administration policies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/science/16nasa.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=0ab721024a234f1d&ex=1297746000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

via:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/02/16/nasa-political-appointees_n_15786.html
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 09:37 AM
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1. "We're an empire now,
and when we act we create our own reality."--unnamed White House aide, 2004.
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