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Keith\u2019s note: On 11 February I posted a memo<\/a> \u2013 verbatim \u2013 with only people\u2019s names redacted \u2013 from the CFO at NASA HQ to the centers about some internal SMD\/OMB efforts. I posted the text verbatim. I tweeted it too<\/a> \u2013 verbatim \u2013 at 10:28 AM. I never mentioned or hinted at missions being cancelled. I just posted the memo. Several hours later Politico posted a piece<\/a> that mentions some of the content of this memo \u2013 but not in the original context \u2013 and omits mention of the source or links to the actual thing on NASAWatch or on Twitter. Whatever. I am used to this by now. But this quickly got out of hand and NASA PAO dropped the ball. More below<\/a>.<\/p>\n But this partial Politico story started to echo and re-echo and become something other than what I first posted. Then a few days later a question was asked about this at a NASA press event. A short video except of this was specifically tweeted<\/a> by NASA press Secretary Bethany Stevens @NASASpox today 15 February (4 days later) wherein a question was asked about a senator\u2019s comments on Twitter<\/a> saying \u201cThe Trump admin must reverse this disastrous decision to withhold NASA funds. These cuts would be devastating for NASA\u2019s workforce and our leadership in science and space exploration.\u201d Huh? I never said any of that. Where did that come from? Oh wait \u2013 it\u2019s the old \u2018story about a story about a story\u2019 thing. <\/p>\n In the video segment, Isaacman answered: \u201cSo I think I am aware of what you are referring to. That was really incorrect reporting. Very routine correspondence between the CFO Office and our various mission directorate and centers as we were gathering information as part of the apportionment process So \u2026 anyone who has any questions as it relates to the science mission to take a look at the NASA official quote that was provided to the reporter although I don\u2019t think they actually included the entirety of it. I think it make it entire clear that there are no missions that are being cancelled or terminated. This was entirely an information gathering exercise that has been completely routine. I can tell you that any of those quotes that go out I have an opportunity to review in advance and fully stand behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n I am not certain who supposedly sent whatever was sent to \u201cthe reporter\u201d they refer to. No one from NASA PAO ever sent me anything. No one from NASA SMD ever contacted me. Had they done so I would have posted it verbatim. Had they done so promptly there\u2019d have been no arm waving and error propagation. PAO simply ignores any inquires I make. Indeed Bethany called me recently and blamed me<\/a> for a screwed up NASA video system during a recent Town Hall. I am not sure what to make of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watching broken news echo Keith\u2019s note: On 11 February I posted a memo \u2013 verbatim \u2013 with only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[718,218682,79,193],"class_list":["post-471091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-nasa","tag-pao","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}