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.
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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.

“As we have stated in the past, NASA is in the process of revising our public affairs policies across the agency to ensure our commitment to open and full communications,” the statement from Mr. Acosta said.

The statement said the resignation of Mr. Deutsch was “a separate matter.”

Mr. Deutsch, 24, was offered a job as a writer and editor in NASA's public affairs office in Washington last year after working on President Bush's re-election campaign and inaugural committee, according to his résumé. No one has disputed those parts of the document.

According to his résumé, Mr. Deutsch received a “Bachelor of Arts in journalism, Class of 2003.”

Yesterday, officials at Texas A&M said that was not the case.
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As for the Surgeon General selection, while many would probably want someone like Marcia Angell (and some, no doubt, someone like Michael Moore, “health expert”) to be chosen, I say it should be someone non-political from CDC or someplace like the American Public Health Association. Safe and sane, not someone the lefty activists would prefer, that is.

George Bush Center for Intelligence

The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999* was signed into law by the President on October 20, 1998. Among its provisions, the Act directed that the Headquarters compound of the Central Intelligence Agency located in Langley, Virginia, shall be known and designated as the “George Bush Center for Intelligence.”

The building wasn't renamed after Porter Goss…

No to any activist. Obama's smart to start slow and sure, not offend and repel the mainstream before he considers pushing leftward to test the mainstream. A former head of CDC for this role, or a public health official, definitely, so long as there's no taint of idiocy like gun control as a “health” issue. (Again, don't shock the normal people.) No to Gupta, but no, also, obviously, to someone like Marcia Angell.