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NASA IG Refuses To Comment on Official Abuse of Elderly Woman

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 26, 2011
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“Davis recalled, “Someone is grabbing me from the back. Now they’re pulling me out of the booth and they have a hold of me pretty darn good, and the force was like, unnecessary … because I’m like 110 (pounds). I’m four-foot-eleven.” Davis claims the agents bruised her arm and tailbone during the incident, but the emotional wounds are far worse. “I felt humiliated,” Davis said. “I felt, this may not be proper to say, but I tell you, I felt raped. I really did.”
Keith’s note: This is all rather pathetic – still no public comment from the NASA Inspector General as to why this small, elderly woman was physically abused like this. Yet after many months she has yet to even be charged with anything. The standard OIG line is “no comment on an ongoing investigations”. Yet clearly OIG staff was blabbing to the media before this story got hit the fan. Just whose best interests are being served here? I can’t imagine that Charlie Bolden has nothing to say about this.
The NASA IG staff have already abrogated the “no comment” policy by virtue of the considerable detail with which news reports about this “ongoing case” have been sourced. NASA Inspector General Paul Martin should be personally embarrassed by this whole episode and should take the professional – and personal – responsibility to address the manner in which this elderly woman was treated. Not to do so borders on abject cowardice on Martin’s part. What kind of person condones the treatment of a little old lady like this?
NASA IG Sends Cops in Flack Vests After 74 Year Old, 4’11” Grandmother, earlier post

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