DaveS wrote:
... There are enough real issues
and differences if one really must post polit stuff.

Hear, hear.

If you want to talk about really costly scandals you can
talk about the EP-3E Aries II aircraft which collided with
a Chinese jet over the South China Sea in April 2001. The
pilot along with 23 other officers and enlisted men on board
managed to make an emergency landing on Chinese soil. The
Chinese returned the 24 sailors but kept the aircraft.

The sailors, hereafter referred to as the bozos, were attached
to the National Security Agency, also bozos but let's not make
this complicated. The bozos were supposed to disable and destroy
all the equipment and software on the aircraft especially the
N.S.A. operating system on the computers. The bozos erased the
hard drive but they didn't destroy it.

The Chinese reverse-engineered the N.S.A. operating system and
had a detailed road map for decrypting the Navy's intelligence
and operational data which they proceeded to do until Obama's
team came on board. Obama ordered the complete replacement of
the EP-3E operating system at a cost of many, many trips to
India. The Navy has "no comment" and the actual cost is classified.

This is all prelude to the battle over who will be in charge
of cyber security, the N.S.A. and the military or civilians.
Really, there's a battle. The same bozos who couldn't find their
own asses with both hands and a flashlight want to be in charge
national cyber security. I wish I were joking.

Thank god for Obama, if not for him the Chinese would still be
reading about everything the Navy was up to and the military-
cyber complex would be even more a menace than it is currently.
Who do you want in charge of cyber security, the whiz kids with
the nose rings and tattoos or the bozos who join the military
because they're not bright enough to get a real job ? And who
do you think the Republicans would put in charge ?

This is the real ****, not some travel budget crap whipped up
by the whackjobs.

--
Ken Fortenberry