houston down in australia. again, china being china, they still have to answer to their government supervisors or bosses so it doesn t surprise me that it did this but the expected out come is what happened. now that you don t report it directly to the command of the investigation, you ve got this game of telephone, you ve got the we the theys and you have people, one, doubting your data. this could be the best break in the whole case but now people doubt it because they didn t follow through the joint task force command structure and time is being lost, time is being wasted. if they had put it through the command structure, the ships would be on the way, additional pinger locations and change the location of others and get there. so hopefully it s all right. hopefully going forward they can work a little better with the joint task force. unfortunately it does sound like business as usual with reporting to beijing first. michael kay, retired lieutenant colonel. two things. first of a