Even better, he made sure the flaw would be there in the first place by being the guy that, every time someone had an idea on something new and shiny, would think it was fantastic and would make the project even bigger and cooler and clearly they had to pull the old parts out and install the new shiny thing, he's already gone ahead and ordered the parts, they'll be here tomorrow, he's really looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

He delayed the Death Star for years with office bullshit. His bureaucratic kung-fu is best.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter