a1Bill,
CM is right. Highly subjective and without the full story and setups it's just another pro-F35 story that irritates many on this forum.
Anything that really gives an indication of capability is deeply protected and not in the public domain so a 6:1 LER is a sound bite without credibility. I'm sorry but as CM says, this issue was table tennis-ed in 2013 around 4,000,000 posts ago.
The higher echelons of the military, politicians and senior government wheels will have been briefed categorically on the capability and potential capability of the jet. That's a big reason that these little snags (as we wade through the custard of SDD) don't really make a huge difference on their opinion. Gilmore is paid and employed to turn over every stone and say exactly what he sees is wrong. He's holding the Program to account and rightly so. It's the ONLY way to ensure it's fixed ASAP and gets prioritised. If he's knocking heads with the Program then I can only imagine it's because a lot of folks there have vested time and care about the JSF, so take it personally. That's a human reaction but probably futile. There's a lot of that on this thread as you know.