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The Management

In a letter to Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), NASA has confirmed that an internal investigation revealed wrongdoing with regard to the handling of Goddard Space Flight Center Chief Dr. James Hansen. “[A]n internal inquiry has revealed that one recent media request to interview Dr. James Hansen, of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was inappropriately declined,” wrote a representative from NASA’s Office of Legislative Affairs. You can read the letter here (PDF). NASA denied that the Hansen incident was part of a larger effort.

Lieberman, however, was hardly placated.

“In the time it took NASA to acknowledge that the censorship of Dr. Hansen was inappropriate, new charges of suppressing climate science have arisen at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Forest Service,” Lieberman said. “Reports of this disturbing practice have now arisen at four federal agencies: EPA, NASA, NOAA, and the Forest Service. It is time for the White House to stop suppressing important climate change information that the public has a right to know and needs to know.” Source

We know the junior staffer and resume-fudger who denied Hansen’s interview request has been sacked. However, NASA’s new media policy (PDF) still runs afoul to the law and lacks efficacy, according to the Government Accountability Project.