Scientists say they're being gagged by Bush / White House monitors their media contacts

Scientists say they're being gagged by Bush / White House monitors their media contacts:

"The assertion that climate scientists are being censored first surfaced in January when James Hansen, who directs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the New York Times and the Washington Post that the administration sought to muzzle him after he gave a lecture in December calling for cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. (NASA Administrator Michael Griffin issued a new policy recently that make clear that its scientists are free to talk to members of the media about their scientific findings, including personal interpretations.)

Two weeks later, Hansen suggested to an audience at the New School University in New York that his counterparts at NOAA were experiencing even more severe censorship. 'It seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the United States,' he told the crowd. "

via Truthout.org