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NASA Chief Calls For Investigation Into Report Of Elon Musk's Talks With Putin

www.huffpost.com NASA Chief Calls For Investigation Into Report Of Elon Musk's Talks With Putin

"That would be concerning, particularly for NASA, the Department of Defense, for some of the intelligence agencies," said administrator Bill Nelson.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson called for an investigation into a report that Elon Musk has been having secret conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin while dually involved in classified intelligence contracts with the U.S. government.

“I don’t know that that story is true. I think it should be investigated,” Nelson said Fridayat a Semafor conference in Washington. “If the story’s true, that there have been multiple conversations between Elon Musk and the president of Russia, then I think that would be concerning, particularly for NASA, the Department of Defense, for some of the intelligence agencies.”

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Can we revoke his government contracts now?
- Better: maybe this gives SpaceX leverage to boot Musk and get away from the madness before the X fiasco sinks Tesla
- And all of his tax breaks too please
This is great, assuming Nelson or someone similar is NASA Admin after January and not Elon Musk. That’s a fucking terrifying thought.
- I'd like someone else as NASA admin tbh... We need to axe the SLS.
How can someone with that much money look like such a dork?
- It's the ugly growth on his neck. If he would just get that removed, we'd all like him much more.
  
  His head? I know! Ew
  
  I think you're giving too much credit to surgery. He'd still be a huge dork. That little flap of skin didn't dress him in the morning.
- Because it's not the money, it's the autism.
Yank the fuckers top secret clearance IMMEDIATELY
- Should have happened after he started fucking with Starlink in Ukraine to aid a hostile state actor. Insanity.
- Yes, AND nationalize spaceX
Ooo please tell me Musk leaked some secrets… please tell me he’s about to get a dank cell someplace…. Unpleasant.
- Hmm... I want him to be in a dark cell, but I also don't want Russia to have any advantages because of what he did.
  
  Russia is collapsing, probably somewhere around 2025-2026, hi-tech won't help them. So as a trade-off I'd take a little secret to putin for an unpleasant cell for musko.
Traitor trash musk
Ohhhh boy. Don't fuck with the space program.
Half of America is reciting the narcissists prayer on their behalf right now.
He didn't really call for it though... He just vaguely said that if it was true, it should be investigated - in a way that doesn't commit him to action.
Gonna be a tough pill to swallow for a lot of people if Trump and Elon actually do manage to end the war with reasonable terms.

Not saying I'm optimistic that this will happen but I guess you can't really rule it out either. I have a feeling that Putin is pretty much done with this shitshow and would be willing to take an exit that'll preserve even half of his face.
- How is the weather in the troll farms?
Did they misspell NSA?
- NASA = space stuff
  
  SpaceX = space stuff
  
  Rational reasons for concern by NASA chief...

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