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Background Checks at NASA JPL Blocked

An AP newswire article by John Antczak, via The Washington Post, reports that:

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information of employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which some contend amounts to an invasion of privacy.

The JPL employees had until Friday to comply with the directive or face the possibility of losing their jobs. They would have been required to fill out questionnaires and submit a waiver allowing the investigations.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued the emergency temporary injunction requested by the 28 employees after a lower court denied the request Wednesday. The lab, managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, has about 5,000 employees.

posted by Fergie @ 10/06/2007 09:49:00 PM