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NASA Avoids Assigning Blame for Columbia Disaster.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003

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

Sep. 14--When a Texas congresswoman asked NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe last week for a list of employees held accountable in the wake of the shuttle Columbia disaster, he did not identify anyone.

Instead, O'Keefe talked about how he had replaced three-quarters of the agency's top leadership during the past year and overseen the removal of 11 of 15 top shuttle managers since May.

"They've either left the agency, they've been reassigned, they've been relieved, any number of different cases," he said.

But O'Keefe refused -- as he had the week before in a congressional appearance -- to name names. "Those who are not there, I think you can draw the conclusion from...

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