He was young and he needed the money...

The boy wonder who resigned after trying to turn NASA into a faith-based agency continues to have trouble with the truth.

Ex-Press Aide for NASA Offers Defense - New York Times

George C. Deutsch, the young NASA press aide who resigned on Tuesday amid claims that he had tried to keep the agency's top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming, defended himself publicly yesterday.

Speaking to a Texas radio station and then to The New York Times, Mr. Deutsch said the scientist, James E. Hansen, exaggerated the threat of warming and tried to cast the Bush administration's response to it as inadequate.

Mr. Deutsch also denied lying about having a college degree and trying to inject religion into some NASA Web presentations.

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The Times reported on Wednesday that contrary to his résumé on file with NASA, Mr. Deutsch, who is 24, never graduated from Texas A&M. Yesterday, in an interview with The Times, Mr. Deutsch said he had written the résumé in anticipation of graduating.

"When I left college," he said, "I did not properly update my résumé. As a result, it may appear misleading to some. However, I was up front with NASA about my undergraduate status when they hired me."

Right. And it's OK for me to put down that I've done post-doctoral work at Ecole Polytechnique because I once anticipated doing so. That may appear misleading to some, but if they knew my heart like Dear Leader does, they would know it was just an innocent mistake.

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