I was jarred at the similarities. I began to think of how NASA has struggled financially over the years. A number of times the threat came from congress to shut them down. Many times the public has cried out for their demise. They depend upon our funding to keep them in business.
Denial is a powerful defense in our personal psychological arsenals.
With at least one head of NASA accused of corruption and a history of tenuous budgets, NASA officials have learned their lesson. Shape and control the public data and their future can be protected. I believe that they do know that there is a possibility of a threat. If this is so, then to allow this information to be released would not only cause great concern in the public eye, but would threaten their credibility. In the past few years NASA has invested heavily in the study of the sun and in sum EM fields.