Sequestration Shovels Money to the Russians

A widespread opinion is that the sequestration--the blunt whack of $85 billion from the national government's budget--was, as UPI puts it, "a dumb idea when it was created and it's a dumb idea now." But the sequestration may be far dumber than most realize. To save money, this budget bash is about to gush over three quarters of a billion dollars from America's space budget directly into the coffers of the Russians. Penny wise and billion dollar foolish.How does this astonishingly self-defeating cash transfusion to Moscow work? [More]