Keith Cowing has a wealth of (mostly anonymous) commentary from NASA employees on the Gehman Report.

It's pretty depressing. After reading this, I'm not sure that NASA is salvageable. The only way to fix it, really, is to abolish the agency, and create a new one, hiring the best people from the old.

Fortunately, what NASA does is becoming ever less relevant to America's future in space.

Well, that's depressing. It seems to be unevenly split between those who think the Gehman report is dead on and that NASA is screwed, and those who think the solution is more money for new launch vehicles, new beaurocratic oversight, and to finish the ISS.

I'm not sure which is more depressing.

Hearing it from the voice of NASA employees themselves, I'm increasingly convinced that the entire organization needs to be scrapped.

Bob

New clean sheet start would be most appropriate, but its a definite political impossibility.

BTW, here's a thought-provoking snippet from the page:
"A sidenote: the CAIB report looked at the Shuttle program. Obviously, many of these poor management decisions have affected the ISS program as well, albeit in ways that are not yet seen. Will NASA institute a CAIB-type invesitgation into the ISS program? Does NASA wait until someone dies aboard the ISS before its program is scrutinzed? If NASA's managmenet processes and structures were so bad...then NOW is the time to put the ISS program under the microscope...before more astronauts die."

Indeed. The ISS is up there and out of sight, so NASA has much more opportunities to screw up, cover up and be silent about it than with shuttle. So when the sh*t should finally hit the fan up there, the thud is going to be a lot louder.