http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070320-120435-3136r.htm

A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him
because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to
Congress that he'd done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent
years.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space
Studies, who argues global warming could be catastrophic, said NASA
staffers denied his request to do a National Public Radio interview
because they didn't want his message to get out.

But Republicans told him the hundreds of other interviews he did
belie his broad claim he was being silenced.

"We have over 1,400 opportunities that you've availed yourself to,
and yet you call it, you know, being stifled," said Rep. Darrell Issa,
California Republican.

Mr. Hansen responded: "For the sake of the taxpayers, they should be
availed of my expertise. I shouldn't be required to parrot some company
line."

In a bitter hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee, which is investigating whether there was political
interference into climate science, Republicans and Democrats accused
each other of "smearing" the other's witnesses.

[when a Republican tells the truth about a Democrat, that's a "smear".]

[...]

Mr. Hansen yesterday said the Bush administration threatened him and
his office over his stance on global warming.

"It was an oral threat made to a public affairs person in New York
and relayed to me," said Mr. Hansen, who is listed as a senior adviser
to Mr. Gore and consulted on Mr. Gore's global warming film, "An
Inconvenient Truth."

Citing what he called a "growth of political interference," Mr.
Hansen said he was forced by NASA officials to deny an interview request
from NPR because press officials believed the network to have a liberal
bias.

But Mr. Issa noted that Mr. Hansen conducted 15 interviews in the
month after accusing the Bush administration of censorship.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070320-120435-3136r.htm

A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him
because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to
Congress that he'd done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent
years.

But Mr. Issa noted that Mr. Hansen conducted 15 interviews in the
month after accusing the Bush administration of censorship.