"Doug..." wrote in message
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In one of the last NASA news conferences on Columbia before CAIB took
over the PR function entirely, one of the NASA spokesmen spoke of the
Kirtland photo, saying specifically that (quoting from memory) "none of
the other images or films from this source show anything more conclusive
than what you've seen." He said this with something of an air of
defiance, as if he was damn well going to tell the truth regardless of
what he'd been told to say (and not to say) about the Kirtland imaging.

If the CAIB had not revealed in its report that those other photos existed
and showed more data, I wonder where we would be now. I wonder if the CAIB
released that information just to get Congress to ask about them. That way
Congress will have to open that door of what sounds like new and possibly
embarrassing details we have not yet seen. It will be interesting to see
how long the sleeping news media will take to notice. I don't have much
respect for them anymore.

That pretty much nailed it down for me.

I know what you mean.

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Daniel
Mount Charleston, not Charleston, SC