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RE: Technical author leading resistance to background checks at NASA
Subject:RE: Technical author leading resistance to background checks at NASA From:"technical writing plus" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"'techwr-l'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:14:36 -0600
Interesting. Good communication is no small matter. It will be interesting
to see how this plays out. The complaining party may well have a legitimate
beef. On the other hand, The NASA and JPL people may not have communicated
well enough with their employees. On the other hand, somebody may have done
something that was clearly illegal. Jim Jones
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Chris Borokowski wrote:
I don't know. I looked up Foster's record and she seemed very
intelligent and capable, with shrewd judgment. Maybe there is more
going on than meets the eye. I sent it to the list out of curiosity
about what other technical writers are thinking, especially since I
know there are many people on this list with military or goverment
experience.
--- Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> I don't understand this. How is this any different
> from the background checks I had to go through for a
> security clearance when I went into the Army? That
> still go on for military personnel?...
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