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Keith's note: More on Stu Nozette from NSS Blog Editor Karen Cramer Shea (on her own blog here and here) who is clearly still confused and firmly seated on the train to Crazy Town. I would certainly hope that the NSS can do better than this in selecting an editor for their blog.
Fall of a tragic hero, the earlier (original) NSS blog posting to which I responded.
NSS Blog Needs Adult Supervision, earlier post
I have to go with Chris here. I don't know anything more about Mr. Nozette than what I have read in the press, and here, but I do understand the notion of tragic flaw and he seems to fit the description.
I'm disappointed however that Keith has gone off the reservation on this with his remarks about Ms. Shea –who, by the way, has unleashed an unwarranted attack on Keith that demonstrates her lack of knowledge about NASA Watch and about Keith. I wonder if she has been reading this site very long to tell the truth.
Nonetheless, this is a huge human tragedy. Sympathetic feelings towards Mr. Nozette by those who have known him and worked with him are not only expected but are part of the wider human tragedy that he has created.
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Seems like Stu's fall, in the context of his having apparently mis billed the government for lengthy periods, is more an instance of Hanna Arendt's insight into the banality of evil rather than some Shakespearian mirage. The Stu I knew at HQ for a year was no sociopath although he took great delight in being the smartest person in the room. He laughed and chuckled with real affect. His willingness to betray the country for so little and to do so when he had to know the government had him in their sights suggests depression, obsession with money for some reason that will eventually come out, a shattered self confidence, and intense denial. All too human - all too banal.