Cowardice in Leadership

George Sarris revealed to Congress in 2008 that the United States Air Force was operating a fleet of specialized reconnaissance aircraft (RC-135s) that were not airworthy. The agency retaliated with an immediate attack on his character in order to divert attention away from the maintenance issues that he had reported. The diversion included a trip through the Pentagon, Congress and the Nebraska State Court system. Eventually, government investigations substantiated the non-airworthy conditions that George had reported, but not before the United States had locked in a 1.3 billion dollar foreign military sale to the United Kingdom for the same type of aircraft.

Now that George has retired and the blackmail has ended, he provides this book as a demonstration to the American public of how harassment, intimidation and reprisals are used as a tool to control the Federal workforce when management fears that it has been caught doing something unethical or illegal.