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Not to be too cynical, but if we started investigating every DoD contract where personal biases decided who won and who lost... the military industrial complex
by unlinked_dll 7y ago
Not to be too cynical, but if we started investigating every DoD contract where personal biases decided who won and who lost... the military industrial complex would probably crumble overnight.
- throwaway5752 7y agoPerhaps, but they should meet some minimal bar of effort to avoid the appearance of impropriety. And on contracts of this size, I would expect the standard of fairness to be higher.
- dnautics 7y ago> they should meet some minimal bar of effort to avoid the appearance of impropriety why not just call a spade a spade?
- lostcolony 7y agoThis isn't that though. This isn't every individual's personal bias; this is a publicly declared bias by the commander in chief. A little different.
- balls187 7y agoIt's not even bias. It's a vendetta
- chrisco255 7y agoAwarding a perfectly capable competitor (Microsoft) a contract isn't a vendetta. Somehow I think Amazon will continue to thrive with or without the JEDI contract.
- ethbro 7y ago> if we started investigating every DoD contract where personal biases decided who won and who lost... the military industrial complex would probably crumble overnight You have in fact described exactly how most long-term DoD contracts are decided. There's almost always a losing party who sues.