As a few of you know, I was engaged as an independent expert witness
in a subject matter in which I have a considerable about of
expertise. I donated many hundreds of hours pouring over huge numbers
of documents and was able to prove that the Coast Guard screwed up
bad, and I means really bad, and that Lockheed Martin was (shall we
say extraordinarily evasive). Bottom line, the Coast Guard was
asleep, they screwed up big time, the contractor knew they were
asleep, so they proceeded to rape the Coast Guard... A whistleblower
at Lockheed came forward (no it wasn't me), the DHS-OIG investigated
and found nothing, the DOJ investigated and uh... let just say that
we will here more about that later. Anyway, I figured out who they
were pulling off the scam, and wrote a report, and then the report
came out early this week (for the hearing mid week) the Coast Guard
does an "oh-sh*t... we have been caught" and starts scrambling to do
something.... anything between last week and the hearing date to show
they are trying to be proactive (hence then announcing that they just
cancelled the Lockheed Contract). Lockheed on the other hand is
screwed, and screwed bad. During the hearing they (as a company, and
four of tier senior executives) got caught dead committing perjury...
and I mean they got caught dead.
I have been given full blessings by Congress to publish any of the
following, and I was fact told (by the Committee) that I should
disseminate this report and resulting hearing transcripts as we have
open government in this county, and screw ups of this magnitude need
to be brought to the publics attention so that the matter can be
corrected with all due oversight.
I would note that there are several strange numbers in the report,
this is because the CG was playing games with the paperwork, and they
would sent three copies of the same document, but with two different
set of numbers. It wasn't until after the written report can out that
the "huge amount of really ugly truth" came out, and was presented in
the oral testimony. All I could do it take the numbers they gave up,
and put them in the report,
Ohhh.... this is a ugly, scathing, nasty, nasty report.
Also, time was at a premium, I donated all my time, and refused to
take a dime for anything, and only asked that they cover my travel
and hotel. So if you see a typo, or you don;t like the formatting,
just remember that I may not have the finest of writing skills, my
grammar may suck,and I may be a bit of an abrasive jerk at times, but
I have my countries best interests at heart and I will defend her to
my last breath. It didn't help that the Coast Guard was fighting
tooth and nail every step along the way, and it was an uphill battle
to get even the slightest amount of information, and then come to
find out they knew they screwed up, and were obstructing a
Congressional Investigation... Congress is wicked pissed over this right now.
You will probably want to be sitting down when you read the
report.... it is an ugly truth to be told.
During the hearing (I will post the transcript later) the Coast Guard
basically said that they have no COMSEC, no TSCM, no TEMPEST
protection, and that the ships don't float, and that they have been
leaking classified information all over the place. My initial report
was like 2000+ pages, but we had to pare it down to it current size
to make it easier to distribute.
Read from page 1 to page 39 to get a good summary, but the
transcripts of the oral testimony went on for over 8 hours (likely
1000's pages of really ugly stuff, bt ugly stuff that we needed to
know about), and we came within two minutes of setting a
Congressional record for the length of a hearing (I was in the
hearing until 11:30 PM, argh).
Take a look at the following links:
http://transportation.house.gov/Media/File/Full%20Committee/20070418PM/SSM_4-18-07.pdf
http://transportation.house.gov/Media/File/Full%20Committee/20070418PM/James%20Atkinson%20Testimony.pdf
There is a second and third set of document that I will post in a few days.
It is interesting reading, and most of you will love the technical
stuff in the first 15 pages.
When I gave my testimony, it was some seriously intense hell-fire,
brimstone, Old Testament kind of stuff.
-jma
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