RP, when all else fails play the man instead of the ball, eh?
When this campaign was in its infancy we were accused of attacking hard working honourable Very Senior Officers, until it became clear that the VSOs we were attacking had set out to, and succeeded in, destroying the process of providing and maintaining airworthiness in the Military Airfleets.
Now the charge is that we are attacking OR's, JO's, and SO's who are trying their best to provide for Military Air Safety, when we are not. What we are trying to point out to those prepared to listen is that the system for providing Military Air Safety, whether it be for Airworthiness Provision or Accident Investigation, is broken. That is no criticism of those stuck with the unenviable task of doing their best in dealing with that system, it is criticism of the system itself.
That is what I mean by saying that SIs are nobbled, for they are denied access to all the facts. It is the SI that is nobbled, not those who sit on its panel who, I am sure, do their level best to get to the truth. That is no way to run Air Safety, because it costs lives, money, and capability. The cost of protecting those who created this mess and those who cover for them can be counted by each and everyone of those factors.
Those that you speak on behalf of will be able to do their job, to save lives, when they are freed of such constraints and discover that the same conclusions that they come to have been discovered over and over again, only to be cast aside every time.