Hansen finally ‘Muzzled’ by Obama?

Watts Up With That ^ | April 8, 2013 | Chris Horner

[Rocky]

So, NASA’s in-house celebrity activist James Hansen says the following in explaining his departure from a lucrative perch — salary alone: $180k per year — one that proved extremely lucrative while there was a useful foil in the White House:

“‘As a government employee, you can’t testify against the government,’ he told the Times.”

Hogwash.

Not that “Job 1″ for Hansen at NASA was attentiveness to ethics guidelines or anything, but the rules say no such thing. See 5 C.F.R. Part 6901.103 (c) and 5 C.F.R. 2635.805.

Indeed, on top of that cool $1 million-plus in outside cash tossed Hansen’s way after he ratcheted up the alarmism and — more important to many — politicking, he presided over an elaborate document removal/destruction operation run by his protégé and presumptive successor, Gavin Schmidt.

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Sure, early on their Department of Justice did work hard to protect him, a valuable advocate in pushing “the cause,” from having his ethics records disclosed to us, maintaining specious legal claims well after we filed suit.

Then, after Hansen made a pain of himself by drawing even more unwanted attention to the festering Keystone XL pipeline decision, getting arrested with (other) celebrities in front of the White House, the caginess suddenly evaporated. I received a call asking where I would like to have a messenger deliver the entirety of Hansen’s relevant ethics records we had sought.

[Rocky]

Obama has always had a thin skin. Apparently, Hansen getting arrested protesting outside the White House provoked the Obama administration to cut Hansen loose. Interesting theory. Sounds credible to me.

[muawiyah]

Real simple ~ federal employees....... show up when the President calls, and stay away otherwise.

Obama is screwing up FEHB so bad, and cutting hours, and delaying pay raises (dude is 5 years behind), he has made some REAL ENEMIES and the last thing Secret Service and Obamugabe's handlers want are hundreds of thousands of federal employees out there clogging DC streets raising cain about the guy.

Hansen's example was a threat to national security of a sort that crowd can understand.

Oh, BTW, so many of them live nearby in Virginia they got their own guns to take to the demonstrations ~ and that's no bull!

[Rocky]

Yes, when you put it in that light, Hansen was setting a bad example to the other federal employees.