Failures to Launch

What the Boeing Dreamliner saga, the torture report, and the Iraq War tell us about the successes and failures of accountability in the United States.

News flash: U.S. government investigators have just issued a highly critical report detailing serious wrongdoing by U.S. officials and some private contractors. The report explains how and why the errors occurred and pins the blame on the responsible parties. Both Americans and other world citizens should be grateful that public officials were able to trace the origins of these mistakes and propose effective remedies to prevent their recurrence.

Unfortunately, I'm not talking about the long-delayed congressional report on torture by the CIA; I'm referring to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report on the battery fires that grounded the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet for several months back in 2013....

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