Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Scientist accuses White House of 'Nazi' tactics

By Joel Havemann, Times Staff Writer
1:05 PM PDT, March 19, 2007
 
WASHINGTON -- A government scientist, under sharp questioning by a federal panel for his outspoken views on global warming, stood by his view today that the Bush administration's information policies smacked of Nazi Germany.

James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, took particular issue with the administration's rule that a government information officer listen in on his interviews with reporters and its refusal to allow him to be interviewed by National Public Radio.
 

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