Nasa
Let me share with you the type of people NASA is hiring. Back in the 80's thru the mid 90's my wife worked for an outfit called International Signal and Control. They were a defense contractor for the government. They made components for the military such as circuitry for harpoon tomahawk missiles, defense ballistics, circuitry for aircraft such as the B-1B Bombers etc... High Tech and clearance level work. If you recall, back then private enterprise that did this type of work was banned from doing business with certain countries for security reasons.....At any rate, the top Brass there were caught being dirty. The founder of the company and his henchmen were caught selling, and smuggling illegal firearms to South Africa. Many of those firearms found their way into the bodies of our military personnel during the 1st Gulf war. Too make a long story short.... The founder was sentenced to ONLY 15 yrs at a minimum security prison. His subordinates were given lesser sentences... Just before he was caught being dirty, the Founder sold the business to a defense contractor from Britain called Ferranti International. They had to go belly up because the founder of International Signal Control inflated the price of stock to make the sale lucrative and inviting. Anyway because of the deceit, and the illegal business ventures, Ferranti (which was unaware of the illegal wrangling's ) folded and my wife along with over 1,000 workers ended up losing their jobs. In the hierarchy of International Signal and Control there was a man named Tom Jasin. He calimed he was innocent, like they all do. He avoided prison for 10 yrs until his luck ran out....He did only 18 months until his lawyers got him out. The Federal Government decided they spent enough money and resources on that case to retry him even though they had enough evidence on him to do so..Well just recently NASA hired him to be in charge of their lunar exploration. A KNOWN FELON and CONVICTED ARMS SMUGGLER. They claim that because of his expertise in that particular field he would be a good fit for them. I wrote NASA a letter detailing his history as made mentioned in a local newspaper write up about him when he was appointed. Many facts about the history of that case resurfaced in a newspaper article about him putting his life back together. I know this was a bit lengthy, but since some of you guy are interested in the Space program...I thought I'd share a brief overview of 1 instance of NASA hiring a convicted arms smuggler who in some small way had a hand in the slaughter of some of our servicemen in the Gulf War. If NASA hired one that I know of, I wonder how many they hired WE don't know of. Good, Bad, or Indifferent, the point is... as sensitive as the government is, and NASA, about our security, it makes no sense to me to trust someone in a prominent role such as this, that had a hand in smuggling illegal arms for self profit... I had to get that off my chest. :willy:
