"The Pentagon's system is still riddled with holes.
These are the very parts that they said they wouldn't be selling
and they still are and so you've got to make sure the changes are
going to actually have teeth and work."
Source: Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, who has
pushed for a ban on the sale of all F-14 surplus parts due to
concerns about those parts falling into the hands of enemy states
such as Iran. After a much-publicized ban earlier this year on the
sale of over 1,000 aircraft parts that could be used on
decommissioned F-14 Tomcat fighter jets, a GAO report has found
some parts still managed to squeak through after all.