Politics in the Zeros

Defense contracting. Hide the money

grab money

The Spy Who Billed Me questions why DoD is claiming national security in withholding data about their outsourced contracts.

Well, lookie here.

22% of the $537 million of unclassified DIA contracts were subject to “full and open competition.” 30.6% of their unclassified contracts had only one bidder.

The situation at the NGA is similar, although their $6 billion of contracting dwarfs the DIA.

After examining the data and finding nothing even remotely of interest to potential evildoers, she concludes.

Again, I challenge anyone to show me how this data could help the enemy. It can’t. Unless, of course, in this case the enemy is the American taxpayer.

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