[gfxxxx]

This was to be expected. Boeing is vital to national security not because of the aircraft it makes, but the supply chains it sustains.

As long as the USD has any value, Boeing will be kept alive.

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

If Boeing is so vital they can nationalize it and place actual officials in charge. There's no legitimate reason not to yank the current suits out and throw them in a neglected muddy pit.

[gfxxxx]

I'm not going to argue for or against nationalization; I'm just pointing out why Boeing will be shielded from reality by our government

[eftychis]

If it is vital to national security -- not disagreeing there -- it is paramount for everything and everyone to be investigated. You want the defense of NATO and the U.S. to be in the hands of people that can not deliver a plane?

Time for heads to drop and roll, and FBI (or any applicable agency, including DoD) to do a cleanup. That ideally should happen via the Courts too, but placing this under the rug is like inviting known enemies to utilize this weakness.

[NikkiA]

TBF only one NATO member is averse to buying airbus/BAE/Leonardo manufactured stuff.

[cottsak]

it's not like US departments can't function with shit placed "under the rug" or anything...

:p

[rsoto2]

They should let it go bankrupt and nationalize it like we should have done with banks

[cottsak]

That turned out well didn't it? :p