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NASA Inspector General Under Investigation

Posted by Zonk on from the seriously-spacey dept.

pinkUZI writes "Apparently, the FBI is investigating reports of NASA Inspector General Cobb doing a poor job with safety inspections and 'retaliating against whistleblowers.' Complaints have been filed by current and former employees." From the article: "The complaints are being reviewed by the Integrity Committee of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency. The complaints describe efforts by Cobb to shut down or ignore investigations on issues such as a malfunctioning self-destruct procedure during a space shuttle launch at the Kennedy Space Center, and the theft of an estimated $1.9 billion worth of data on rocket engines from NASA computers."

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  1. Come again... by JustinKSU · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency"

    LOL

  2. The President's Wha? by lifeisgreat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is this the first time anyone else has heard of the "Integrity Committee of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency"?

    You'd think they'd have popped up earlier during, oh, the 12 or so major scandals that have hit congress and the white house in recent months.

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  3. Misdirection. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I'd be very cautious about taking this story as an opportunity to grind a capitalist's axe when there's obviously something far more interesting going on.

    This is a story being carried in the Big Media about Big Government, which means without any doubt that the whole issue is malarky intended to manipulate public thinking in specific directions.

    What are some of those directions? What ideas are they trying to seed in our ever-fertile minds. . ?

    Here are a couple which jump out at me. . .

    1. "Oh, but Who could ever have stolen the data?" Translation: "Which government or group do we want to vilify and create fear around so as to justify further erosions to public rights and further war spending?"

    2. "Ah, I see the FBI and our President are linked to Integrity and Efficiency." Translation: "The White House public relations department has determined that the people are waking up to Bush's psychopathic nature, so we'd better spend a lot more money reassuring them that Bush is really a good guy with moral integrity, otherwise we might lose control of this whole mess of a presidency and find ourselves swinging from a bunch of nooses."

    It's a good idea not to fall so conveniently into the old "Right v.s. Left" nonsense. That's just the bad guys using the divide and conquer technique to stop citizens from forming healthy communities capable of standing against the control system.


    -FL