[matthewwiese]

This theory, although fantastical, appears to fall in line with what little is known about Cotten. The kind of person to run a quarter-billion dollar operation solely from their laptop, I would think is certainly liable to pull a stunt like this. What's more interesting, however, is that the converse situation is equally likely: that the supposed ignorance of Cotten played up in the reporting of this story by the media plays absolutely in his favor. Would you trade appearing a fool to "get away with" something like this?

If I were to have unrestricted access to $250M and woke up on the wrong side of the bed one day (or just a bad day in traffic, even) it would take little to flip a switch in my head and think, to Hell with all this, let's skedaddle! However, I am way too much of a paranoiac to do this without absolutely ruining my QOL after the fact, hah.

I suppose situations like this is why we have the Two-man Rule for nuclear launches, &c. Keep those delusions in check!

[jacobush]

”Two-man Rule for nuclear launches”.

You would think, right?

[Mvandenbergh]

The two-man rule only applies to the launch officers, not to the launch authority (president or his successor).