Defense contracting. Hide the money
Bob Morris @ Dec 26th 2007 00:15 - Category: Politics Tags: corruption
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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