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Public affairs officer or political commissar. You make the call! From the NYTimes: "Mr. Deutsch's educational record was first challenged on Monday by Nick Anthis, who graduated from Texas A&M last year with a biochemistry degree and has been writing a Web log on science policy, scientificactivist.blogspot.com." NYTimes (02.08.06):

"George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word 'theory' at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.

Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted."

A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA

"Officials at NASA headquarters declined to discuss the reason for the resignation."

Though we could probably guess.

"The resignation came as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was preparing to review its policies for communicating science to the public."

"The review was ordered Friday by Michael D. Griffin, the NASA administrator, after a week in which many agency scientists and midlevel public affairs officials described to The New York Times instances in which they said political pressure was applied to limit or flavor discussions of topics uncomfortable to the Bush administration, particularly global warming."

Prior to landing his job at NASA, George had worked on President Bush's re-election campaign and inaugural committee.

At least that's what it said in his resume.

More on George from World O'Crap. The lad's a beauty, eh?