Anyone heard of his Deutsch guy before ?

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" A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA New York Times 02/08/06 author: Andrew C. Revkin c. 2006 New York Times Company George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said. Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted. Officials at NASA headquarters declined to discuss the reason for the resignation. "Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters," said Dean Acosta, the deputy assistant administrator for public affairs and Mr. Deutsch's boss. The resignation came as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was preparing to review its policies for communicating science to the public. The review was ordered Friday by Michael D. Griffin, the NASA administrator, after a week in which many agency scientists and midlevel public affairs officials described to The New York Times instances in which they said political pressure was applied to limit or flavor discussions of topics uncomfortable to the Bush administration, particularly global warming. "As we have stated in the past, NASA is in the process of revising our public affairs policies across the agency to ensure our commitment to open and full communications," the statement from Mr. Acosta said. The statement said the resignation of Mr. Deutsch was "a separate matter." Mr. Deutsch, 24, was offered a job as a writer and editor in NASA's public affairs office in Washington last year after working on President Bush's re-election campaign and inaugural committee, according to his résumé. No one has disputed those parts of the document. According to his résumé, Mr. Deutsch received a "Bachelor of Arts in journalism, Class of 2003." Yesterday, officials at Texas A&M said that was not the case. "George Carlton Deutsch III did attend Texas A&M University but has not completed the requirements for a degree," said an e-mail message from Rita Presley, assistant to the registrar at the university, responding to a query from The Times. Repeated calls and e-mail messages to Mr. Deutsch on Tuesday were not answered. Mr. Deutsch's educational record was first challenged on Monday by Nick Anthis, who graduated from Texas A&M last year with a biochemistry degree and has been writing a Web log on science policy, scientificactivist.blogspot.com. After Mr. Anthis read about the problems at NASA, he said in an interview: "It seemed like political figures had really overstepped the line. I was just going to write some commentary on this when somebody tipped me off that George Deutsch might not have graduated." He posted a blog entry asserting this after he checked with the university's association of former students. He reported that the association said Mr. Deutsch received no degree. A copy of Mr. Deutsch's résumé was provided to The Times by someone working in NASA headquarters who, along with many other NASA employees, said Mr. Deutsch played a small but significant role in an intensifying effort at the agency to exert political control over the flow of information to the public. Such complaints came to the fore starting in late January, when James E. Hansen, the climate scientist, and several midlevel public affairs officers told The Times that political appointees, including Mr. Deutsch, were pressing to limit Dr. Hansen's speaking and interviews on the threats posed by global warming. Yesterday, Dr. Hansen said that the questions about Mr. Deutsch's credentials were important, but were a distraction from the broader issue of political control of scientific information. "He's only a bit player," Dr. Hansen said of Mr. Deutsch. " The problem is much broader and much deeper and it goes across agencies. That's what I'm really concerned about." "On climate, the public has been misinformed and not informed," he said. "The foundation of a democracy is an informed public, which obviously means an honestly informed public. That's the big issue here." "

2/8/2006 11:34:40 AM

he's the doucher who wanted NASA to put shit on its website about intelligent design and to say the big bang is just a "theory"

2/8/2006 11:37:15 AM

whoa whoa, he appointed a guy who graduated the same year as me? well, who SAID he graduated the same year as me?

2/8/2006 12:01:14 PM

http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/

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"Hansen is really on to something here, and instead of the story being about a 24-year-old lying, it should be about this: how did this guy, who already had dubious qualifications, make it into NASA with such an obvious lie on his resume? To work for a federal agency, including NASA, extensive background checks are usually required. If I was able to uncover the truth about Deutsch in one phone call, then he must have been placed in his current position without any investigation, due to his loyal service on the Bush presidential campaign. For a president that paints himself as a champion of national security, the NASA incident is a major blow to Bush’s credibility. This isn’t the first time either, with George Deutsch now joining the ranks of Michael Brown, the embattled former director of FEMA, and Harriet Myers, Bush’s Supreme Court nominee who was subsequently withdrawn. Congratulations, Deutsch, this is a pretty elite circle!"

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 12:06 PM. Reason : m]

2/8/2006 12:03:43 PM

you say that as if qualifications for the job are a part of bush's appointment process

2/8/2006 12:04:12 PM

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"you say that as if qualifications for the job are a part of bush's appointment process"

2/8/2006 12:09:44 PM

This is sickening.

And once again, no one will care.

2/8/2006 3:07:13 PM

he worked in public affairs, its not like he was designing satellites

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"To work for a federal agency, including NASA, extensive background checks are usually required. "

if you have involvement in relevant programs most certainly, but that is projected in his comments as a blanket statement when it is only partially true, inflating his argument unnecessarily

mootduff thinks that is a nice logical falicy, and the story really is about a 24-year-old lying

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 4:02 PM. Reason : MOOTDUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF is the new LEEEROOOOYYYYYYYYY]

2/8/2006 4:01:34 PM

even if he shouldn't need a "background check," one would think that a person doing public relations for nasa should probably at least have his resume checked out. Of course, if you drop out of school to help bush lie his way into the presidency, I suppose you're probably due a public relations job where they tell you to lie on your resume. I mean NASA probably knew he had lied as well, the prez just told them to accept it, and they figured nobody would know. whoops.

2/9/2006 8:51:49 AM

btw

score another one for the bloggers

2/9/2006 10:59:10 AM

damn, i need to become a friend of bush. haha

2/10/2006 12:28:32 PM