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Conservative think tank targeting NASA employees' communications about Elon Musk, Donald Trump

Economic Times · 1m

- Conservative think tank Heritage Foundation is requesting NASA to disclose internal discussions on Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump. - The Heritage Foundation aims to identify civil servants who oppose Trump's plan to appoint Elon Musk as a government efficiency czar. - The requests are viewed as partisan attempts to find critics of Trump and Musk to remove them from federal positions. - Cheryl Warner, a NASA spokesperson, confirmed the agency received an unprecedented amount of open record requests from the Heritage Foundation. - The Heritage Foundation has filed over 192 open records requests with NASA, seeking employee communications that reference Musk or his companies, including Tesla and SpaceX. - The foundation has also filed information requests with federal law enforcement agencies to ensure Musk is not mistreated by the government.