{"id":181462,"date":"2016-06-19T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/19\/this-wouldnt-have-happened-if-the-original-story-hadnt-gotten-a-lot-of-ink\/"},"modified":"2016-06-19T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:17:00","slug":"this-wouldnt-have-happened-if-the-original-story-hadnt-gotten-a-lot-of-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/19\/this-wouldnt-have-happened-if-the-original-story-hadnt-gotten-a-lot-of-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"This Wouldn&#8217;t Have Happened If the Original Story Hadn&#8217;t Gotten a Lot of Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF inspector general lost over a decade of corruption and mismanagement files back, and now, following surprisingly extensive coverage of this mishap, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2016\/06\/air-force-says-it-recovered-trove-files-corrupted-database\/129112\/?oref=d-skybox\">they appeared to have rectified the error<\/a>.  I thought that the loss was suspicious, and I don&#8217;t think that the recovery efforts were as herculean as the article implies.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that no one wanted to try to recover the data, but it got too hot not to try:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The U.S. Air Force says it has recovered files from 100,000 inspector general investigations dating back to 2004. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a short, four-sentence statement released midday on Wednesday, service officials said the Air Force continues to investigate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2016\/06\/computer-crash-wipes-out-years-air-force-investigation-records\/129049\/\">embarrassing incident in which the files and their backups were corrupted<\/a>. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThrough extensive data recovery efforts over the weekend and this week, the Air Force has been able to regain access to the data in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/Portals\/1\/documents\/ig\/acts-users-manual.pdf\">Air Force Inspector General Automated Case Tracking System (ACTS)<\/a>,\u201d the statement reads.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The inspector general\u2019s office investigates claims of waste, fraud, and abuse within the Air Force.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may be innocent, but it smells like a 3 dead dead gopher in august.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF inspector general lost over a decade of corruption and mismanagement files back, and now, following surprisingly extensive coverage of this mishap, they appeared to have rectified the error. I thought that the loss was suspicious, and I don&#8217;t think that the recovery efforts were as herculean as the article implies. My guess is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,970,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}