Thank you for a strong dose of common sense in your May 29 editorial concerning problems with the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) [“Grandstanding Won’t Fix NPOESS,” page 18]. It really is unfair for members of Congress to call for the dismissal of respected public officials because of problems on a single program in which they played a limited role. If this same standard were applied across the entire federal government, the ranks of senior bureaucrats (not to mention legislators) might be completely depopulated.
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