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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: unanswered questions
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 20:24:08 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 20:24:08 1986
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> ... I was glad to see an independent commission set
> up to investigate this disaster. But that also means someone in the
> White House does not trust NASA completely, or thinks there will be
> charges of a white wash. The only way charges of a white wash would
> show up, is if there are people within NASA who have already been
> complaining about safety issues loud enough for the White House to
> hear them...

Nonsense.  You are confusing making such charges with backing them up.
Someone who opposed the Shuttle on other grounds might be all too willing
to make the charge, knowing that there was no evidence but hoping to hurt
the program simply by bad publicity.  Which it probably would, since the
news media are much more interested in rumors of wrongdoing than in later
proof that there was none.  The appearance of innocence can be as important
as actually *being* innocent.  The White House acted sensibly.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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