An Illegal Quantum Leap

W. Bruce Cameron

Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007.

I’ve always maintained that research is the refuge of writers too lazy to make up their own facts. But when someone else sends me his research, I’m more than happy to accept it — as with this item, which comes straight out of court documents.

On March 22, 2007, a woman named Tammy Roberson filed a complaint in U.S. district court against George Bush, Condoleezza Rice and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), charging the defendants with (among other things):

“Illegal criminal activities i...