Retired Admiral Bobby Inman, President Clinton’s nominee to be the new Secretary of Defense, has withdrawn on grounds that he doesn’t see why he should put up with the concomitant character assasination: as well as running the Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp and coming a cropper with Tracor Inc, Inman was on the panel that provided the interface for Ferranti International Plc to the parts of its International Signal & Control acquisition that US Pentagon rules barred Ferranti from seeing – that included the fraudulent – or rotten to the core company’s books…
