04 January 2014 (11:50 UTC-07 Tango)/02 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/14 Dey 1392/04 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711

“It was a pretty big deal and an unusual situation because there’s a prohibition on doing defense work in China, even if it’s inadvertent. I’d never seen this happen before.”-Frank Kenlon, recently retired senior DoD procurement official

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation revealed that U.S. military contractors have been authorized by the U.S. DoD to buy parts made in China, even parts for the super expensive (and total waste of tax dollars) F-35 Lightning II.  This violates current federal law!

More than a decade ago the F-35 was envisioned as a mutli-platform aircraft for all the branches of the U.S. military, and promoted as a way of saving the DoD money.  Ironically, it became so expensive that it became a multi-national project, in order to keep the already outrageous costs to taxpayers from going too much higher (and even that attempt was a fail).   Now it’s been shown that the DoD took it upon themselves to allow contractors to violate federal law and buy parts for the F-35 from China, in another move to keep costs from going higher.

The GAO will make the conclusions of their investigation public on 01 March 2014.  Reuters has already got hold of enough info to publish an article.

The GAO investigation was ordered by Congress, after U.S. metal suppliers complained they were being shut off from doing business with the DoD!

The F-35 is a prime metaphor for the exceptionally failing United States of America: It’s been dragging on for more than a decade, and more and more tax dollars are being spent with absolutely no end in sight, to the extent that public officials are willing to violate their own laws in the name of National Security!

(don’t blame China for the actions of your public officials, after all, the evil British empire is a major player in the F-35 program)