Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

House questions destruction of NASA tapes

|
|
 
  
Published: April 27, 2007 at 11:24 PM

WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency officials destroyed videotapes of a meeting between top agency officials, said Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C.

Miller -- the chairman of the Science and Technology subcommittee on investigations and oversight -- said he wants an explanation from National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief Michael D. Griffin, The Washington Post reported Friday.

Miller said the order to destroy the meeting tapes "appears on its face to be nothing less than the destruction of evidence."

NASA spokesman David Mould told the newspaper the meeting between Griffin and the agency's inspector general had been requested so Griffin could "discuss outstanding issues with the inspector general's staff and express support for a strong watchdog office."

Mould said NASA's general counsel advised that the tapes be destroyed when it was discovered the meeting had been recorded against the NASA chief of staff's wishes.

Topics: Brad Miller, Inspector General, Michael D. Griffin
© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Father's Day: Celebrity dads The 2012 Miss USA competition Faces of the 2012 French Open
2012 MTV Movie Awards Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Notable deaths of 2012
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 21
Singer Janelle Monae arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, California
View Caption
Singer Janelle Monae arrives for the MTV Movie Awards at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. UPI/Jim Ruymen
fark
Remember ladies, beating your boyfriend because he won't marry you to renew your visa won't improve...
Try meth when you really have an itch, or when you want to see in two places at once. Warning: mildly...
"Speed and alcohol may have been a factor" say investigators about the man killed when thrown from...
Surprise parties have a little more gunfire in Arizona
Rehabilitated former "bath salts" zombie explains what it's like to hunger for the flesh of the...
Threatening to personally, intimately fertilize neighbor's yard at 3:30 AM is no way to make friends,...