https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-science-specialreport-idUSKCN1UP15P
By Charles Levinson
Reuters.com
July 30, 2019
NEW YORK (Reuters) - They’re members of a prestigious academic panel with
top-secret clearances who’ve advised the Pentagon on some of America’s most
vexing national security issues since the Cold War. Over 60 years, they’ve won
11 Nobel prizes and conducted hundreds of government studies.
The advisory group, known as Jason, is a team of some 60 of America’s top
physicists and scientists who spend each summer in La Jolla, California,
conducting studies commissioned by the Pentagon and other U.S. government
agencies.
On March 28, Trump appointee Michael Griffin – the Pentagon’s chief technology
officer – unexpectedly moved to terminate the group.
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration,
objected, telling Griffin’s office the scientists were crucial for keeping
America’s nuclear stockpile secure, according to an NNSA official and others
affiliated with the Jason program. Gordon-Hagerty’s agency offered to take
responsibility for the program. She only needed Griffin’s signature to make it
happen.
Griffin refused.
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