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NASA Lets Congress See Secret Interviews.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003

The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 14--WASHINGTON -- The board investigating the shuttle Columbia tragedy will give Congress -- but not the public -- limited access to transcripts of confidential interviews conducted during its nearly five-month probe, under terms of a deal announced Friday.

The deal, reportedly agreed to by ranking members of the committees that oversee the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will permit a handful of representatives and senators and as many as 16 staffers to read and take notes on about 225 secret interviews conducted by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

But the agreement forbids any copying of the transcripts and bars making names or specific...

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