Justification For The Death Penalty

I picked up the following from the pages of the Winston Salem Urinal today. It's credited only to "Journal Wire Report":

Inspector-general report says
laws may have been broken

SALT LAKE CITY - A Defense Department report said that the Air Force wasted $1 million on unreliable hand-held chemical agent detectors that could have put any airmen at risk who depended on the equipment, a newspaper reported yesterday.

Air Force officials may have violated federal laws and military rules when they bought 100 commercial versions of the detectors and supplied them to commanders in the Middle East while knowing that the manufacturer's tests showed that the detectors did not work well in hot areas or under battle conditions, the Deseret Morning News reported.

Officials also did not wait for other necessary tests, according to a Defense Department Inspector General report the newspaper obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Assuming that this report is correct, and our troops were placed in an area where we know from past history chem and biologics were stored and used, both the suppliers and the Air Force procurement personnel should be up on some dead serious charges.

Of course, that's just my opinion.