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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orionblamblam" data-source="post: 53159" data-attributes="member: 90"><blockquote data-quote="flateric">I assume someone lost his job in State Dept. this weekend?</blockquote>It's a large bureaucracy. It might well be that *nobody* is to blame for this little foulup.<img src="http://www.roughtheory.org/wp-content/images/meetings.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Or it could be one schmoe who made a lazy translation error.Or it could be one artisan who made a spelling error on the product.Or it could be one person who deliberately tinkered as a joke.In any event, in aerospace there are multiple levels of people checking each report, each drawing, each part, each assembly. Even so, things slip through. I've seen disturbing things slip through reports to NASA... the report writer, in the last desperate race to finish banging the thing out before the deadline, either slips up and doesn't catch it*, or throws in a little joke intending to remove it later and forgetting. There's always the risk of someone slipping into your cube when you step out to go to lunch and adding a little extra test to your work. Sometimes that little extra text gets all the way through release to the customer.Sometimes the customer has a sense of humor about such things.Sometimes, though, it's left to some higher manager to suddenly discover the little "addition" when he or she is doing the presentation to the customers. And those peopel *never* have a sense of humor about that sort of thing.Which I suspect is the case with Hillary here....*And spell checkers are not always your friend. And autmated spelling-error-replacers are quite often downright malicious. Make a spelling error on the word "analyze," and you'd better be damned careful what the computer decides to put in there...</blockquote>

Verification: Name the company which designed the F-117A Stealth Fighter