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Business/Financial

Griffin Contradicts Report That He Has Blocked Obama Team From Gaining Information About NASA

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Monday, December 15th, 2008

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Report: Griffin Confronts, Lambastes An Obama Transition Team Member, Resists Requests For Information NASA Administrator Mike Griffin flatly denied as untrue a report by the Orlando Sentinel that he blistered a member of President-elect Obama's NASA transition team, saying to her face that she isn't qualified to judge the manned space exploration program, while he also clamped tight controls on NASA staffers' contacts with the Obama team. The story was based on not-for-attribution comments of people who the paper said…

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