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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's top lawyer said Thursday that he destroyed several DVD recordings of a talk between the space agency's boss and the staff of its internal watchdog office because he wanted to make sure the meeting details weren't made public.
"I personally made the decision to destroy them," NASA general counsel Michael Wholley told a House subcommittee in Washington. "I did so by breaking them into pieces and throwing them in the trash."
Wholley apologized and said in retrospect he wished he could give the panel a recording of the meeting. But at the time, he considered it to be private and one that shouldn't have been recorded. He worried that if the DVDs were kept by the agency, they could be subject to public record laws.
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