To get the full story might require some FOIA requests. I noticed that Salon did exactly that regarding the administration’s actions on global warming relating to NOAA and NASA:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/19/noaa/index.html

Good stuff. Not relying on AP stories but getting the actual emails involved.

Either drop the schoolyard “I’m right, you’re wrong” bit or provide proof behind your statements. Both sound hollow to me.

There were people involved in these matters whom you would not necessarily know by name. They are generally not inclined to talk to the media. Even if they had been so inclined, they would have been very leery of taking their concerns to NASA Watch given Keith’s strong support of Sean O’Keefe and his tendency to publicly demand that critics sit down and shut up.

Off to more productive things.

I don’t really have any real biases against the administration where the Hubble is concerned. I saw benefits and drawbacks in the various options they reviewed. It was, for me, a non-partisan issue.

I do know that NASA’s own outside experts judged the robotic one to have about a 50 percent chance of success and doubted it would even be ready in time. That did surprise and trouble those who knew about the disparity between the findings and what NASA was saying publicly.

In general, I like your sites. They’re valuable and interesting. But, you don’t know everything and aren’t always right. By definite, you can’t be. Try to keep that in mind.

It is quite clear by this post and others that you have made your mind up about the Bush Adminstration. Your bias is obvious.

A closed mind does not a good reporter make.

Are you absolutely sure that the WH and NASA management didn’t mislead you about all this? This government has misled far more prominent journalists and the public about far more weighty issues.

If you’re absolutely convince they didn’t, there very little else to say here. If not, you’ve got some work to do. Up to you.

I haven’t written about space in recent years, but I follow developments in the field closely and maintain good professional and personal contacts. In some ways, not writing about it is a benefit. People tend to be more candid if they know it won’t end up in a blog the next day.