January 20, 2008
HSPD-12 Update
Was the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit too liberal in stopping NASA background checks? You decide, ComputerWorld
JPL scientists resist NASA's bargain-basement inquisition, LA Times via SJ Mercury News
"For the last four years, two robot rovers operated from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been moving across the surface of Mars, taking photographs and collecting information. It's an epic event in the history of exploration, one of many for which JPL's 7,000 civilian scientists and engineers are responsible - when they're not fending off the U.S. government's attempts to conduct an intimidating and probably illegal inquisition into the intimate details of their lives."
Posted by kcowing at January 20, 2008 10:46 AM
