Obviously a headline stating the blindingly obvious ... but it gets better.
Illegal surveillance is something we hate but crooked government dickweeds really love.
(Ed: why?)
Because they can get stuff for nothin'. They only have to spend millions of dollars for the things they use to get it.
For example, you might get a KC-135, a huge military transport, because you can put every kind of creepy electronic snoopy sleazy device somewhere inside this aircraft. It will be expensive, of course, but you want the absolutely sneakiest creepiest shit you can get so it really doesn't bother you when you get that price tag for $65,000,000.
General Spendyourbucks says, "Fuck it. This aircraft is a steal. Gimme ten of them!"
But ... there's a problem.
Actually, there's a really big problem.
If every nut on this aircraft is not properly torqued to the right specification, problems may ensue. Perhaps the nut may come loose and a light fixture may fall to the floor ... or ... perhaps it can cause an oxygen leak which cleverly manages to ignite, thus burning the entire aircraft so badly that nothing remains for it except a receipt for $65,000,000 at the Pentagon. (CNN: Loose nut costs Air Force $62.4 million in accident)
Be all you can be, General ... just try not to burn it to the ground before it's paid-off, ok.
(Ed: editorial?)
It really doesn't need one and they do this sort of thing so often it's really not much of a story but some things are a bit unusual, other than burning up a $65,000,000 aircraft on the runway simply by being a dumb ass.
The first task of the military is to kill it and, failing that, to blame the failure on someone else. Adhering strictly to that protocol, the Air Force found a civilian contractor they could blame for the fire.
(Ed: they must have followed all appropriate crash analysis)
No doubt but one thing they didn't analyze is why people in the Air Force now can't fix their own fucking aircraft. We're guessing they don't know how.
Keep in mind how unusual it is to see this as this is one extremely expensive aircraft. You can get the much more destructive (when it works) F-35 for $1,600,000 ... chickenfeed. You could get a whole aircraft carrier full of them for less than the cost of this single spy aircraft.
This aircraft is also possessed of extremely sensitive intelligence-gathering (i.e. voyeur) equipment so this gives an additional reason for exceptionally tight security around it.
So, the Air Force directs maintenance out to civilian contractors and what could make more sense than that. The reliability of security screening by civilian contractors is just impeccable, just look at the case of Edward Snowden. He burned up the CIA and another one burned up one of its aircraft.
The CIA might want to consider finding some other contractors or an Air Force with people who actually know how to fix the stuff they use. Just a thought.
Illegal surveillance is something we hate but crooked government dickweeds really love.
(Ed: why?)
Because they can get stuff for nothin'. They only have to spend millions of dollars for the things they use to get it.
For example, you might get a KC-135, a huge military transport, because you can put every kind of creepy electronic snoopy sleazy device somewhere inside this aircraft. It will be expensive, of course, but you want the absolutely sneakiest creepiest shit you can get so it really doesn't bother you when you get that price tag for $65,000,000.
General Spendyourbucks says, "Fuck it. This aircraft is a steal. Gimme ten of them!"
But ... there's a problem.
Actually, there's a really big problem.
If every nut on this aircraft is not properly torqued to the right specification, problems may ensue. Perhaps the nut may come loose and a light fixture may fall to the floor ... or ... perhaps it can cause an oxygen leak which cleverly manages to ignite, thus burning the entire aircraft so badly that nothing remains for it except a receipt for $65,000,000 at the Pentagon. (CNN: Loose nut costs Air Force $62.4 million in accident)
Be all you can be, General ... just try not to burn it to the ground before it's paid-off, ok.
(Ed: editorial?)
It really doesn't need one and they do this sort of thing so often it's really not much of a story but some things are a bit unusual, other than burning up a $65,000,000 aircraft on the runway simply by being a dumb ass.
The first task of the military is to kill it and, failing that, to blame the failure on someone else. Adhering strictly to that protocol, the Air Force found a civilian contractor they could blame for the fire.
(Ed: they must have followed all appropriate crash analysis)
No doubt but one thing they didn't analyze is why people in the Air Force now can't fix their own fucking aircraft. We're guessing they don't know how.
Keep in mind how unusual it is to see this as this is one extremely expensive aircraft. You can get the much more destructive (when it works) F-35 for $1,600,000 ... chickenfeed. You could get a whole aircraft carrier full of them for less than the cost of this single spy aircraft.
This aircraft is also possessed of extremely sensitive intelligence-gathering (i.e. voyeur) equipment so this gives an additional reason for exceptionally tight security around it.
So, the Air Force directs maintenance out to civilian contractors and what could make more sense than that. The reliability of security screening by civilian contractors is just impeccable, just look at the case of Edward Snowden. He burned up the CIA and another one burned up one of its aircraft.
The CIA might want to consider finding some other contractors or an Air Force with people who actually know how to fix the stuff they use. Just a thought.
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