O'Keefe poised to step down from NASA post

[quaoar]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/space/2942982

By MARK CARREAU
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

After three tumultuous years at the space agency's helm, NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe is poised to leave the Bush administration to become chancellor of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

An announcement could come as early as Monday, officials familiar with the situation said today.

O'Keefe formally applied for the $500,000 a year post late Friday after heavy recruiting by the university to land him.

Charles Zewe, a spokesman for LSU's board of supervisors said O'Keefe will meet with the search committee and the university's board of supervisors.

[Dem2theMax]

1. Isn't THAT strange timing?

Didn't his name come up somewhere down the line with the voter fraud issues?

Timing I tell ya. Timing.

[Barrett808]

8. Yes: White House-linked operation paid for "vote switching" software

Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

December 6, 2004—The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives, Republican Party politicians close to the Bush family, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.

An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney, a customized Windows-based program to suppress Democratic votes on touch screen voting machines, a Florida computer services company with whom Feeney worked as a general counsel and registered lobbyist while he was Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and top level officials of the Bush administration.

According to a notarized affidavit signed by Clint Curtis, while he was employed by the NASA Kennedy Space Center contractor, Yang Enterprises, Inc., during 2000, Feeney solicited him to write a program to "control the vote." At the time, Curtis was of the opinion that the program was to be used for preventing fraud in the in the 2002 election in Palm Beach County, Florida. His mind was changed, however, when the true intentions of Feeney became clear: the computer program was going to be used to suppress the Democratic vote in counties with large Democratic registrations.

According to Curtis, Feeney and other top brass at Yang Enterprises, a company located in a three-story building in Oviedo, Florida, wanted the prototype written in Visual Basic 5 (VB.5) in Microsoft Windows and the end-product designed to be portable across different Unix-based vote tabulation systems and to be "undetectable" to voters and election supervisors.

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http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html

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2. How convenient! He is looking to leave NASA now that

Yang's dirty laundry is being aired. I hope it makes it public before LSU's board of supervisors approve his hiring. He needs to be out there on the limb with the rest of the crooks.

Hey, anyone know any LSU big wigs? If you do, you better warn them about O'Keefe.

[ngant17]

3. transferred for protection?

New Orleans has the only NASA complex which is shared by a clandestine CIA station in Michaud AFB, which is outside of the big easy.

If you buy into Madsen's account of CIA black ops in this, well then O'keefe's going there probably because he can be sheltered there more easily than in other areas. They probably need him out of the limelight, if he's guilty then he's being rewarded.

[quaoar]

6. LSU is in Baton Rouge

about 90 miles west of New Orleans.

Michaud, which is where the external tanks for the space shuttle are made, is in New Orleans East.

[johncoby2]

4. Replaced with a military person. Again.

NASA is becoming more and more military and being run as such.

A Retired LT Colonel from the AF is expected to be nominated.
A former Marine is in charge of Exploration.
A Marine General has NASA in Houston with his staff, many marines also.


As far as Okeefe, dont let the door hit you in the ass!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

10. My dad's retiring from NASA after 40 years of service

at the end of the month.

He basically said O'Keefe "was perfectly suited to head up NASA. He is an accountant?!" Said with sarcasm, obviously. Another "choice" pick by * is in the works, no doubt.

[jamboi]

5. Hmmm... n/t

[Massacure]

7. Good ridance

Hopefully the next guy will back down on scrapping Hubble.

[bear425]

9. CNN link

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/12/12/okeefe.resign/index.html