The 60 Minutes report that I posted about unfortunately turned out to be a disappointing fluff piece, interviewing only proponents of the program from the Pentagon and elsewhere. There was a minimal amount of tsk-tsking and hand wringing about "gee we know it costs a lot" (but it isn't my money.....so send some more...).
60 Minutes journalistic quality has slipped in several areas in the last few years, and I no longer trust them as much as I once did. However, I had hoped with a program so deeply flawed and based on such ridiculous assumptions from the outset as the F-35 they would do better.
Fortunately the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) stepped into the breach. This article is an interview with Winslow Wheeler, director of POGO's Straus Military Reform Project which is full of interesting and insightful analysis into that tax-dollar cesspool we call the Pentagon.
He mentions a website that is dedicated to tracking the F-35 abomination and hopefully spurring people to do something about it.
Both the POGO page and the website have this video, but it is important enough that I am posting it here as well.
My only regret is that I did not coin "The Jet That Ate the Pentagon", but then again with the prevailing attitude in Washington DC of "just keep pouring money onto it" where the Pentagon is concerned it may not be possible for any program to actually "eat the Pentagon".
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