Sadly, I agree. The attitude is going to be to lie and cover-up until the bitter end, at which point heads are going to roll. I don't see the high road being taken. I don't know what the plan is beyond this recent request for Baltia, but I think the FAA will likely dig their heels in, for the same reasons PN mentioned.
I think they're going to hedge their bets on there NOT being an actual news story that's going to break, and when it does, it's going to get very, very ugly. I'm more than satisfied with having to wait while the gloves come off. I would be shocked if it happens any other way. If they pass Baltia prior to this, it would be an admission of guilt, but even more-so it would be an admission of AWARENESS of guilt.
It isn't (as) bad for the upper-level FAA personnel to admit that there have been shady things going on, especially with their subordinates. They can recover from that. However, they have to FULLY commit themselves to the image that they are ignorant of the wrong-doing-- which only means lie, lie, lie, lie, deny, deny, deny and cover your tracks. Anything else is admitting awareness of the problem.
However, the more ridiculous they are now and throughout this saga is only going to sweeten the aspect at the end of this for Baltia. When a decision is rendered, however that happens, this is going to be VERY punitive against the FAA because they've had so many opportunities to right a very severe wrong (including right NOW), and they failed to do so. This is the very definition of a cover-up, and you could probably count on one hand the amount of government cover-ups that would outrank this. This is going to grow exponentionally, and they REALLY don't believe it. We can see it. They can't.
I anticipate this taking a bit longer... I don't know how much, but it's going to have to go the full process of this news agency doing their DD, hitting the public with it, then whatever legal course runs as a result. However, what comes of it at the end of the day, as the wait gets longer, is only going to sweeten what Baltia is owed as compensation (and there WILL be compensation. A lot of it.) It might be a legendarily large penalty, in fact.
LT? Papa? What do you think?
Agree? Disagree?
I think they're going to hedge their bets on there NOT being an actual news story that's going to break, and when it does, it's going to get very, very ugly. I'm more than satisfied with having to wait while the gloves come off. I would be shocked if it happens any other way. If they pass Baltia prior to this, it would be an admission of guilt, but even more-so it would be an admission of AWARENESS of guilt.
It isn't (as) bad for the upper-level FAA personnel to admit that there have been shady things going on, especially with their subordinates. They can recover from that. However, they have to FULLY commit themselves to the image that they are ignorant of the wrong-doing-- which only means lie, lie, lie, lie, deny, deny, deny and cover your tracks. Anything else is admitting awareness of the problem.
However, the more ridiculous they are now and throughout this saga is only going to sweeten the aspect at the end of this for Baltia. When a decision is rendered, however that happens, this is going to be VERY punitive against the FAA because they've had so many opportunities to right a very severe wrong (including right NOW), and they failed to do so. This is the very definition of a cover-up, and you could probably count on one hand the amount of government cover-ups that would outrank this. This is going to grow exponentionally, and they REALLY don't believe it. We can see it. They can't.
I anticipate this taking a bit longer... I don't know how much, but it's going to have to go the full process of this news agency doing their DD, hitting the public with it, then whatever legal course runs as a result. However, what comes of it at the end of the day, as the wait gets longer, is only going to sweeten what Baltia is owed as compensation (and there WILL be compensation. A lot of it.) It might be a legendarily large penalty, in fact.
LT? Papa? What do you think?
Agree? Disagree?
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