You have obviously never worked in a classified environment. That's where I was coming from. There was a Confidentiality Clause in play. If that clause were violated, or perceived to be violated, the deal would have been dead, and Judge Ward would be very pissed at US. I've harped on this before, but apparently it fell on your deaf ears or pure ignorance of how the "world of secrecy" works.

In a classified environment, if you bid on a contract that is highly classified, and is for very big bucks (necessitating many management approvals all up the line), it is highly likely that some/many of the signing authorities do not have the proper clearance level or an effectively arguable "need to know" to see the full content of that contract. So they sign a cover sheet, depending on those fully cognizant to have effectively done their jobs. That's how it works.

And the same thing could have happened here. No wrongdoing or failure by anyone. The objective was to make the deal and comply with its terms.

But, in your ignorance of how the real world works in such matters, you jump to some hair-brain conclusion, and try to put words in my mouth. Then you go off suggesting that the company failed in this and that.

In the classified world, it's the "security of the nation" at stake.

In what I was suggesting, it would have been "the preservation of our biggest and most important deal to date - and our entire future" at stake. Would this not rise to similar importance?

Enough on this, it no longer matters, other than my ire at someone jumping to unintended wild conclusions and attaching my name to it, in jest or not.

SGE