Harris offers another ‘word salad’: Faulkner
Steamboat Institute Fellow Kaylee McGee White and former New York State Senator David Carlucci discuss Kamala Harris’ ABC interview and the vice president’s reversals on a variety of issues.
A conservative watchdog group has sued the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeking documents related to the situation that left two American astronauts stranded in space. International Space Station (ISS) will be closed for several months.
The executive director of the Oversight Project told Fox News Digital on Monday that he and his group legally sought the emails Between NASA Political appointments and the White House, including the office of Vice President Harris, who also serves as chair of the National Space Council.
The filing, filed by Mike Howell, head of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, also seeks outgoing emails to Harris’ presidential campaign. Just as Harris was tasked with reducing the root causes of illegal immigration as the so-called border czar, her role as vice president makes her a key adviser on space policy in this regard.
Howell said, “It seems to me and other experts that Space Czar Kamala Harris has chosen politics over our astronauts.” He speculates that there may be some political calculation behind bringing astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams back as planned.
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In this photo provided by NASA, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is attached to the Harmony module of the International Space Station on July 3, 2024. (NASA via AP)
“It’s bizarre that the mainstream media doesn’t care about this massive scandal. We will continue to investigate and get Americans the answers they deserve.”
The National Space Council (NSPC) was originally organized slightly differently under former President George H.W. Bush, but was disbanded and reorganized under former President Trump.
Trump himself unveiled the US Space Force, the first new branch of the military in decades, at the 2018 NSPC meeting.
In its filing, the Oversight Project seeks to compel NASA to share correspondence from agency Chief of Staff Bel Dalton III, Associate Administrator James Frey and five other senior officials. It also seeks communications between NASA and officials from Boeing’s commercial crew program, the company that built the Starliner capsule that carried Wilmore and Williams to the ISS this summer.
Vice President Harris attends a meeting of the National Space Council. (DHS)
A source familiar with the matter pointed to the designated responsibilities of the NSPC chair, as outlined by Trump in his 2021 executive order establishing the council.
The first condition states, “The Chairman shall serve as the principal advisor to the President on national space policy and strategy…”
Therefore, the NSPC chairman has substantial advisory authority over NASA’s decision-making, the source said.
At a press briefing in August, a NASA official said the agency and Boeing had “a little disagreement in terms of the level of risk” after propulsion problems and elemental leaks in the capsule. Ultimately, the Starliner spacecraft returned safely to Earth unmanned on September 7.
A few weeks ago, Boeing executives A statement said They were confident in Starliner’s ability to return safely with a crew: “We continue to support NASA’s requests for additional testing, data, analysis, and review to confirm the spacecraft’s safe undocking and landing capabilities. Our confidence is based on this valuable testing conducted by Boeing and NASA.”
“This data also supports the root cause assessment of the helium and thruster issues, and the flight justification for the return of Starliner and its crew to Earth,” the statement said.
On X (formerly Twitter), Howell listed the biographies of some of the people who were hired at NASA while Harris was leading the NSPC, including a veteran of New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, another from the Jacksonville Symphony, and a man whose “scientific” major was “political science.”
He said, “Space is serious business. Kamala Harris clearly has no authority to run the National Space Council… They are lost in space right now. One of the reasons they are lost in space is because our NASA has turned into yet another woke-DEI, disappointing excuse for a government agency.”
Howell also shared a copy of a document outlining the “strategic objectives” of the “NASA DEIA Strategic Plan.”
“The fact is that Vice President Kamala Harris’ record as border czar is just as terrible as her record as space czar,” Howell said Monday.
Howell said it is important that the public look for any such correspondence of a political nature between NASA, the vice president’s camp, and/or Boeing, as other countries such as China are watching for such “signs of weakness”.
“Harris appears to have signaled a willingness to give up America’s space superiority in the name of an effort to ‘save democracy,’” he said, suggesting that the DEIA priority could endanger national security. “When is enough enough?”
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Vice President Harris (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
However, the astronauts… Took my long journey with ease.
“I love being in space. It’s my happy place,” Williams said.
Wilmore won’t be able to attend his daughter’s final year of high school, but he requested an absentee ballot Friday so he could vote from class.
Fox News Digital reached out to Harris’s government office and the Harris campaign but did not receive a response.
In a response to Fox News Digital regarding the FOIA, a NASA spokesperson said Harris and NSpC staff “received frequent updates regarding the Starliner crewed flight test.”
“While the National Space Council works closely with civilian, national security, commercial and international partners to advance the Nation’s space priorities, it does not make operational space flight safety recommendations or decisions,” the spokesperson wrote.
The Associated Press contributed to this report,
