One catastrophe happened, and another one was narrowly avoided – thanks to whistleblowers .
By the way, government employees do not have protection from retaliation by their employers under the First Amendment of the Constitution. The House of Representatives passed H.R. 985, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 2007. President George W. Bush, citing national security concerns, promised to veto the bill should it be enacted into law by Congress. The fact that whistleblowers face such risks, we should appreciate just how concerned they must have been, and how little they trusted their chain of command, to go outside it with their information.
In both cases we were told that mistakes had been made, and in both cases those “mistakes” were a complete failure of a rigorous system of checks which had worked without failure for decades put in place y our government.
In both cases, but not without public pressure, there were investigations and reports issued.
In neither case were there any indictment or demotion proportional to the “mistakes” made and the severity of the consequences those failures allowed for.
In both cases the report and investigation was carried out by people who can be alleged has having too close ties and loyalty to involved parties, to truly be biased only towards the public ultimately at risk or, in one case, suffering a damage that could have been avoided.
In both cases the reports started out by leaving fundamental questions unanswered, which – in both cases – seemed to be possible to answer only by commission or omission on behalf of government agencies or officials.
In both cases, fortunately, people found it hard to accept the reports as anything more than a self-serving official conclusion. Favored not for what it actually addressed, but for what it did not even questioned.
I leave you to take part of two articles, both representing the continued search for answers never provided to questions never raised.
Some people just can not accept that the belief in one's government, should come at the price of truth
I recommend you read and contemplate the similarities in the two cases.
The Welch Whitewash: We Still Don't Know What That Aug. 30 Nuke Incident Was About
