The following is part 2 a series of X (formally Twitter) articles from Don Lueders
https://twitter.com/DonLueders/status/1986443535835341258
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
The contracting firms NASA pays to support their records management program are fully aware of the crimes NASA is committing…and they will brutally punish anyone who might try to expose them.
Multiple contracting companies provide scores of consultants in support of NASA’s records management program. These contracting companies will claim otherwise, but they are fully aware that NASA only pretends to comply with Federal records management laws.
But in case there’s any question, here’s a screenshot of a chat message I sent to my company manager with a partial listing of the Federal information management laws that NASA violates every day:
The truth is that the consultants actively support the agency’s illusion of records management compliance. (More on that in a future post in this series.)
As an example, here’s another screenshot of a chat with my company manager from earlier this year. This conversation started as a result of the Trump administration’s Executive Order to dismantle agency DEI programs and preserve all agency DEI records. Knowing NASA was incapable of complying with the EO, I nonetheless tried to gently persuade my manager to discuss it with NASA’s records management team leads:
Notice at the end my manager agrees with me that it may be “a little late” to start managing DEI records. She wrote this because she knows the agency doesn’t manage any agency electronic records, and it would be pointless to bring the DEI records up with agency records management leadership.
The contracting company I worked for at NASA first began to get annoyed with me for trying to get the agency to comply with records management laws a couple of years ago. But when they discovered I had been speaking with NASA’s Office of Inspector General about the problem, my work environment quickly became quite toxic.
I won’t bore you with the details on that. Instead, I think the story of my attempt to turn in my NASA equipment – some of which I secretly recorded on the videos presented below – is a good illustration of the lengths the company was willing to go to try to prevent me from continuing to speak out about NASA’s records management crimes. (As a bonus, it is also a glimpse of the totalitarian future we are all likely to soon face.)
My last day at NASA was September 30th. I was directed by my employer to go to Kennedy Space Center’s Headquarters on October 1st to drop off my equipment and then drop off my badge on the way out. When I got to the front gate, I was told that my access to Kennedy was denied, and I was instructed to go directly to the badging office. When I arrived at the badging office, I gave my badge to someone at the front desk. He told me to wait right where I was and went to the back of the building. When he returned, he had two armed police officers with him. They approached me and positioned themselves very close to me between me and the front door. If I moved toward the door, they would move with me. They told me I needed to go with them to a back office.
I was taken to the back office, and four more armed police officers arrived. At one point all six officers were in the room. I was asked if I had any weapons on me and told to lift my shirt to show my pockets. At first, I wasn’t allowed to sit down. I was told to keep my hands out of my pockets. During this entire time, there was always at least one officer standing in the doorway.
When I asked them why this was happening, I was told they “just needed some information” before they collected my equipment. They asked me several questions that didn’t seem to make any sense, but I answered them anyway. At one point I realized I had left my monitor in my car. (I had expected to take it into Kennedy HQ, so I hadn’t brought it into the badging center.) I asked if I could go get it and was told no.
This video was taken in the room in which I was being held. Notice at no time is there not someone guarding the door and someone else standing beside it. Though unspoken, it was clear to me that I should not make an attempt to leave.
To be fair, the officer standing in the doorway makes a good argument that he and his fellow law enforcement officers are patriots who would not turn on innocent American citizens.
But it turned out I had stopped recording too soon.
After I completed the transfer of my equipment shortly after this video ends, I was told I could leave. But the officer in the doorway said I could not drive off the lot until he and his partner were in the car behind me. I said, “Do you mean you have to follow me as I leave the area?”
He said, “Yes, that’s right. I don’t want to do it, but I have to.”
I said to him, “Do you even hear yourself? You just basically said, “I’m only following orders.” Don’t you understand that’s exactly what the Nazis claimed.” He replied with something I didn’t understand. And I said, “You’re no different than anyone else. You think you won’t turn on your follow Americans now, but you will. Remember me when that happens.”
Then I left to go to my car and wait for them to pull behind me.
Here’s a short video of the police officers following me. It should be noted that all of this occurred on public roads outside of Kennedy Space Center.
This entire episode was orchestrated by my employer to try to intimidate me in hopes that I wouldn’t continue to speak openly about NASA’s records management crimes and my employer’s participation in them.
In case it’s not clear, it didn’t work.
NASA doesn’t comply with any Federal records management laws, and their contractors not only know it, they willfully enable the illusion that they do.
Without agency records management executed in good faith, NASA cannot be held accountable for their actions. Without accountability, the agency was free to become progressively authoritarian. This is how the Obama regime always
planned to use agency records management to “fundamentally transform” the country
into a tyrannical Orwellian dystopia. NASA’s crimes, the behavior of my employer, and my subsequent detainment by ‘law enforcement officers’ is the result of that.
NASA’s records management failures and the resulting absence of accountability has had disastrous consequences. In Part 4 of this series, I’ll show you how it affected NASA during the COVID epidemic. It’s pretty startling, to say the least.
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