April 02, 2009
NASA IG Resigns
(Washington, DC)—Today, the NASA Inspector General Robert “Moose” Cobb sent a letter to President Obama resigning from his post, effective April 11th.
“This is a good first step,” said Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN). “Mr. Cobb was not up to the job. But the end result can’t just be the removal of an ineffectual IG. We need to put in place a strong IG. NASA is too important an agency, with too important a mission, to risk letting waste and abuse run rampant due to lax oversight.”
"This is an opportunity for President Obama to return NASA to its original mission, to make it the 'right stuff' agency again," said Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Brad Miller (D-NC). "A scientific agency should not be political in the way NASA became in the last eight years."
The Committee first called for the removal of Mr. Cobb in 2007. Chairmen Gordon and Miller sent a letter to President Obama in February asking him to “ensure Mr. Cobb’s expeditious removal and replacement with an inspector general who can rebuild the NASA OIG [Office of the Inspector General] into the highly competent, thorough, and independent operation that both NASA and the American taxpayer deserve.”
For more information, including on the Committee’s work on this issue, please see the Committee’s website.
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