Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies - AP

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Source: Associated Press

updated 7:06 p.m. EDT, Mon June 2, 2008

Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies

WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA's press office "marginalized or
mischaracterized" studies on global warming between 2004
and 2006, the agency's own internal watchdog concluded.

In a report released Monday, NASA's inspector general
office called it "inappropriate political interference"
by political appointees in the press office. It said the
agency's top management wasn't part of the censorship,
nor were career officials.

NASA downplayed the report as old news on a problem that
has since been fixed. NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage
said the space agency's new policies have been hailed
for openness by the U.S. Government Accountability
Office.

The report found credence in allegations that National
Public Radio was denied access to top global warming
scientist James Hansen. It also found evidence that NASA
headquarters press officials canceled a press conference on
a mission monitoring ozone pollution and global warming
because it was too close to the 2004 presidential election.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/02/nasa.global.warming.ap/index.html

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doofus political appointees continue to do a "heckuva job" for their ass-clown leader: