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• Red commented on Stu Nozette Arrested for Espionage
  "Could The Israeli Spy Case Really Be An Indian Spy Case?" http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/the_nozette_espionage_case_what_is_country_a.php?ref=mp...

• Red commented on Stu Nozette Arrested for Espionage
  "Could The Israeli Spy Case Really Be An Indian Spy Case?" http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/the_nozette_espionage_case_what_is_country_a.php?ref=mp...

• Red commented on Stu Nozette Arrested for Espionage
  ISRO clarifies over Nozette’s arrest http://www.duniyalive.com/?p=69861 By Mahua Ray Das Bangalore: According to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), US Senior scientist David Nozette is not a threat for ISRO’s activities. Nozette was arrested by FBI with charges of spying for Israel. Nozette, NASA scientist had visited the premises of ISRO twice and this caused doubts of his passing on information on Chandrayaan project. Bhaskaran Nair, ISRO’s Chief Security Officer denied any access to Nozette to any critical data during his visits. Nair informed “There is no threat to ISRO or to Chandrayaan. ISRO has strict security protocols for foreign...

• Red commented on Stu Nozette Arrested for Espionage
  "The spy who lost his thumb drives" Asia Times Online http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KJ23Ak01.html [...] "Is India, in fact, "Country A" which is named throughout the court documents that have been revealed by US authorities? One can only guess. When an attempt was made just a few weeks ago to fly ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe in tandem with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) so that the synthetic aperture radars on both spacecraft could engage in so-called bi-static observations of the lunar surface, Nozette was standing by to help ensure success on August 20 as these two spacecraft - only 20 kilometers apart -...

• HD commented on Everyone@NASA Should Have A Facebook Page
  Don't blame us poor NASA workers, blame Congress. ITAR rules make posting anything to Facebook or anywhere else in a timely fashion difficult. Everything I publish, everything, has to be approved by several levels of management then go to Document Review and Export Control. This takes days, at best. It takes a non-negligible amount of time to fill out the forms, even though they are online. ITAR makes the individual criminally responsible for anything released. If you make a bad decision, off to jail for you, so there's not a lot of incentive to push the processes in place. Yes,...