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How can you say that!?!
If they can't hold public hearings, under oath if neccessary, just as they did for Challenger, then they don't deserve OUR tax money!

What on earth are they trying to hide??? Why is this different than Challenger?

I don't trust them to 'issue' a 'report'! I want to know exactly how they screwed up, and how they are going to prevent it from happening again.
I've spent scores of hours, days even, reading the threads on this since 2-1-03, trying to understand even the technical parts, with the help of our FReepers.
I have always loved NASA and our space programs, but I sincerely don't trust them anymore...if they get away with this. It breaks my heart.

"What on earth are they trying to hide???"

Hiding two things (to avoid retribution):

1. Their personal F***-ups.
2. Their involvment in ratting out others' F***-ups.

Kind of like witness protection, and it allows the interviewees to speak more freely. If you don't understand the simplicity of that, I can't help you. The testimony still exists, it just doesn't have a name on it.

"Why is this different than Challenger?"

Well, their is "priveledged" or at least hidden testimony to be sure there, too. So that's NOT different.

However, the level of detail to investigate and the ability to investigate it is much greater than Challenger. The fiddly details of investigation is not for public consumption, merely on the basis of volume alone.

Whenever the government relents and feeds the public data like water from a firehose, they get accused of trying bury data in a sea of information. You can't please everybody.