I was too busy to comment at the time, but when I saw this post at NASA Watch the other day, I said “Huh?”

In recent days [Courtney] Stadd has made it known to people that he would be interested in the position of Deputy Administrator – if asked.

My own sources indicate that Courtney could have had the administrator job, back before O’Keefe was picked, but didn’t want it because he couldn’t afford to take it, and didn’t want to become as consumed with it as he’d have had to in order to even hope to straighten out the agency. So why would he now be interested in playing second banana to Mike Griffin, when the workload would be just as high, and the pay and authority less? As Keith notes, however, Courtney has denied it (as I would have expected).