Comment by dashundchen
1 day ago
Excellent reporting by Wired. I've been impressed by the depth of their coverage in the past year.
This is outright corruption. These ghouls don't even attempt to hide the conflicts of interest.
Musk is hiring employees from his own company SpaceX, using a backdoor to avoid vetting, to an agency that regulates his own company, to change critical safety systems. After the secretary of that department outright lied about what's happening.
Meanwhile contracts continue to be awarded to SpaceX with no attempt from Musk to recuse himself or separate the conflict of interest.
> By the time these posts were made, though, according to sources who were granted anonymity because they fear retaliation, SpaceX engineers were already being onboarded at the agency under Schedule A, a special authority that allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities without requiring them to compete for the job,” according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
> Excellent reporting by Wired. I've been impressed by the depth of their coverage in the past year.
Depth of reporting is not accuracy, and there may be a bit of illusion here.
For instance, the bit you cite (their reporting on Schedule A) is a great example of lazy reporting for a cheap "gotcha" to amplify ragebait with misinformation -- the Wired reporters either couldn't be bothered to look up the various forms of Schedule A hiring (in this case, Schedule A (r) [0] vs. Schedule A (u) [1]), or they are intentionally mis-reporting in order to add more outrage. Only section U deals with disabilities -- section R deals with temporary hiring.
I think you and I are walking away with very different impressions of the quality of Wired's "depth of coverage".
[0]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-...
[1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/part-213/subject-group-...
Is the idea that software experience has been holding the FAA back?
The vague applicable part of the r is this:
professional/industry exchange programs that provide for a cross-fertilization between the agency and the private sector to foster mutual understanding, an exchange of ideas, or to bring experienced practitioners to the agency;
Amazing that rocket application guys are the most valuable experts when dealing with air traffic control.
> This is outright corruption
Mars, baby. You ain't seen nothin yet.
I noted downvotes of displeasure. Rebuttal would be more informative. Focus on "cost savings" and doing away with "corruption". Bonus points for connecting dot$ between El Doge's various businesses and the MIC.
> special authority that allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities
Just to add to the irony, that type of authority is exactly the type of "DEI" practice that Elon/Trump is railing against as "corrupt/Marxist".
Piling on corruption under the guise of rooting out corruption. It's an old trick used by dictators in other countries.
It is 100% Orwellian doublespeak. It should be a five alarm fire, but cowed media outlets are incapable of calling it out for some reason. Probably because they are terrified of the consequences. Preemptive surrender. Dark times ahead.
The outcome of "calling it out" for 8 years straight is a comeback with popular vote win. So I think it's reasonable to change a strategy that has failed so miserably for so long.
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From the transparency of the comments, it's clear many people are in denial about this. The media enjoy the circus, even if it's on fire.
Like they care at all about using anything else that gives them more power and control. They will use all the freedom created by the previous generations of Americans to reduce as much freedom for others as they can. Fascists do fascists things.
> This is outright corruption. These ghouls don't even attempt to hide the conflicts of interest.
It was better when folks in the FAA tried to hide their conflicts of interest!
Unironically yes. The need to hide them makes it more difficult to have them.