Sunday, August 11, 2013

Put Vol 2 Report of DLA Piper Review into the light of day

With the release of  volume one of the DLA Piper Review based on some (but not all) abuses by Defence comes the need to release volume 2 of the report (redacted as needed).

Currently, volume 2 can  only be seen by a privileged few.

This will show more ugliness of Defence abuse and will be hard for the senior bureaucracy to deal with, but it must be done in order to fix what is broken.

If there is no open approach toward fixing what is broken, then various abuse will continue.

Some important considerations include not just the abuse in general (which takes wider forms than noted in the report) but leadership behavior.

An accessory to all this is "misprision behavior". While it is a versatile term, in this context it means, those that know of an offense but do not report it.

Chapter 7 of the criminal code covers many things, but it offers a useful reference for the abused and those that have to clean up the mess.

Of importance also: the same kind of behavior that causes personal abuse is the same kind of behavior that runs administrative programs and Defence acquisition and sustainment programs into the ditch.

So, fixing all this by pulling back the layers of the onion in an open way, has many future benefits toward the national Defence capability.

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