[TML] Space Piracy

[Richard Aiken]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/08 3:08 PM, "Richard Aiken" <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would further add that there is the security that is mandated by
>> policy and the security that actually gets implemented.  Re: The
>> recent resignation of both the Secretary of the Air Force and the Air
>> Force Chief of Staff, due to repeated violations of nuclear security
>> protocols.
>
> I thought it was funny how the stink rolled all the way uphill to those 2,
> then stopped before touching Gates himself.  :P

Not that I'm defending him, but the article I read implied that the
stink stopped there because Gates had been complaining for a long
while that the Air Force was too lax about such things.  The
implication was that the audit which discovered these incidents had
been commissioned by Gates.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein