NASA Administrator Muzzles Employees From Speaking Openly w/ Obama Review Team

[G_j]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/11/nasa-obama/

NASA Administrator Muzzles Employees From Speaking Openly With Obama Agency Review Team»

In order to ensure a smooth transition, President-elect Obama has set up numerous agency review teams charged with completing “a thorough review” of government agencies. One of the teams’ tasks is to interview agency employees, offering them “a chance to share their knowledge and pent-up grievances about programs that have run into funding difficulties or about bosses they did not like.”

However, over at NASA, this process is running into a roadbloack: NASA administrator Michael Griffin. He has gone after agency review leader Lori Garver, who once served as an associate administrator at NASA, calling her “not qualified” to judge his rocket programs. After a “heated 40-minute conversation” between the two last week, a “red-faced” Griffin reportedly demanded to speak directly to Obama.

But even more disturbing is the Orlando Sentinel’s report that Griffin has been muzzling NASA employees from speaking openly to Obama’s review staffers, “scripting” them “on what they can tell the transition team.” He has also reportedly “warned” aerospace executives not to criticize his pet project — NASA’s “delayed and over-budget” moon rocket program:



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[TomInTib]

1. Maybe Griffin can explain why 30,000+ people cannot get the Space Station to function properly.

What a worthless waste of talent.

But I'm still crazy for Velcro.

Tang? Not so much.

[razors edge]

2. Maybe their just afraid

Obama will spill the beans on the UFOs they captured and the aliens they make mop the floors after visitors hours.