Griffin's Gentle Approach
NASA Lab Workers Decry New Security Checks, Science (subscription)
“If you do not want to surrender the information to allow your background to be checked … then you cannot work within the federal system,” Griffin told JPL employees during a 4 June visit. That message hasn’t gone down well among some JPL employees. “Signing this form amounts to inviting the government to go on an open fishing expedition,” says planetary scientist Robert Nelson.”