one of the most instructive things about the whole catastrophe is that the US ruling class actually - with a few exceptions - has no morals or values and will not actually intervene to stop "bad" things, even "bad" things happening in obviously "bad" ways.
There's cost cutting and there's insanity.<p>Can they communicate via proxy or public mailing lists or is accidental communication also forbidden? Can NOAA guys read French NOTAMs?