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It seems we have an update to this article:
NASA Aide Who Resigned Over Warming Offers Defense
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/science/10nasa.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/science/10nasa.ready.html

George C. Deutsch, the young NASA press aide who resigned on Tuesday in the center of a storm over claims that he had tried to keep keep the agency's top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming, defended himself today in his first public interviews....

In the interview, Mr. Deutsch said that Dr. Hansen had partisan ties "all the way up to the top of the Democratic Party," and that he was "using those ties and using his media connections to push an agenda, a worst-case-scenario agenda of global warming." He said that anyone who disagrees with Dr. Hansen "is labeled a censor and is demonized and vilified in the media — and the media of course is a willing accomplice here."

Mr. Deutsch contended that although Dr. Hansen was a scientist, he wanted to talk about policy as well as science. "He wants to demean the president, he wants to demean the administration and create a false perception that the administration is watering down science and lying to the public," Mr. Deutsch said. "And that is patently false."

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"When I left college," he said, "I did not properly update my résumé. As a result, it may appear misleading to some. However, I was up front with NASA about my undergraduate status when they hired me."...

It seems that this update changes a lot of things.. first, all the new articles seem to stop calling him a 'presidential appointee' and he actually says he was hired directly by NASA.

Someone here theorized that he also submitted his resume prior to graduating, on the anticipation of graduating- something the article supports.

It seems the shift of focus has gone away from the 'Big Bang Theory' debate and much of the new articles are about global warming.

Finally, the updates seem to shift the attempted spin and propaganda off of the administration and on to left wing propaganda & attempts to manipulate the story.. hmmm.. more questions....

Thanks for the update.

Looks like a lame attempt at spin control by Deutsch to me. And there is no reasonable doubt he was a Schedule C federal employee - i.e. one in a policy type, patronage appointment. I'll post a link to my blog analysis of the affair when I've tied up a few loose ends.

It seems that this update changes a lot of things.. first, all the new articles seem to stop calling him a 'presidential appointee' and he actually says he was hired directly by NASA.

In the interview on WTAW, George Deutsch said, and I quote, he was a 'Bush Appointee'.

Apology accepted.