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Mass Murder or Utter Stupidity / Chap. 6 p. 52
Mrs. Pat White, who alledgedly committed suicide a few years after her husband's cremation.
According to post-mortem reports she wasn't suicidal either. Low-level whistle blowers
die like flies, and yet General Phillips goes on to head NASA after he told basically the same
story.
Borman also complained about the windows that kept fogging up on his Gemini 7 mission
and on Apollo 8. North American for four straight years failed to find a solution for
such a simple problem as window fogging, yet he couldn't find anything seriously wrong
with them. That's about par, isn't it
Borman was stationed at Clark Air Force base in Manila during 1952. Part of his duty
was to inspect a huge warehouse that stored heavy equipment, supposedly ready to roll on an
instant's notice. His inspection revealed that "there wasn't a vehicle or a piece of equipment
that wasn't in deplorable shape—most of it unusable without major overhauls. The stuff had
been there since the end of the war and obviously hadn't been touched since." 32
The Captain in charge asked Borman to certify that it was in good condition, and he
refused. The code of West Point is "duty and honor" and that took precedence. However,
when a Colonel insisted that he sign off that the equipment was in good condition Borman
caved in. "Honor" be dammed. The new moral code is apparently totally dependent upon the
rank of the officer who gives the order. Go along to get along!
Next, Borman, still the politician that Collins first pegged him for, tells perhaps the
greatest lie of his life. He concludes, "We didn't sweep a single mistake under the rug, and to
this day I'm proud of the committee's honesty and integrity." 33 Presumably Mr. Borman had
his fingers crossed when he wrote that!
The committee was still in the middle of its stately review process when on April 7,
1967, a House subcommittee was also convened to investigate the fire. The next day a very
dismayed New York Times fired off a lead editorial. They used the words, "Even a high
school chemistry student knows better than to play with 100% oxygen." The editorial went
on to accuse NASA, in general, and those in charge of the Apollo project, in particular, of
"incompetence and negligence." 34
The 204 Board concluded with a real wrist spanker of a statement against NASA, "A
sealed cabin, pressurized with a pure oxygen atmosphere without thought of fire hazard; an
overly extensive distribution of combustible materials in the cabin; vulnerable wiring
carrying spacecraft power; leaky plumbing carrying a combustible and corrosive coolant;
inadequate escape provisions for the crew, and inadequate provisions for rescue or medical
assistance."
Both committees would prove about as useful as a screen door in space (and about as
effective as the politicians who manned the Warren Commission's investigation of the
Kennedy assassination a few years before). Like all government inquisitions, they used a
method best described as "let's all gang-bang the whistle-blower."
The entire nation saw this process repeated in all its unadulterated glory during the Anita
Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings where she exercised futility trying to derail what turned
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene