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Special Report: In Pentagon deal with Russians, big profit for tiny Florida firm
REUTERS ^ | Nov 18, 2014 | Brian Grow, Stephen Grey and Roman Anin

Posted on 11/21/2014 8:23:49 AM PST by McGruff

For months, a powerful U.S. senator has been pushing for details of a murky deal under which a Russian manufacturer supplies the rocket engines used to launch America’s spy satellites into space.

At issue: how much the U.S. Air Force pays for the engines, how much the Russians receive, and whether members of the elite in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia are secretly profiting by inflating the price.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
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1 posted on 11/21/2014 8:23:49 AM PST by McGruff
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Excerpt: Now, documents uncovered by Reuters provide some answers. A tiny Florida-based company, acting as a middleman in the deal, is marking up the price by millions of dollars per engine.


News "stories" like this from AP-Reuters (et al) are disgusting.

Yeah ... the old "journalist investigation shoe" ...

Where the HELL are these bastards when it comes to telling - REPORTING - the TRUTH about Obama, Holder, the EPA ???


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2 posted on 11/21/2014 8:46:23 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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must be a white republican in the deal.


3 posted on 11/21/2014 8:47:51 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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LOL, thats not hard...investigating everything else. :) Then they dont have to investigate things the Barry admin has put off limits. Hey, gotta be busy w/ something.


4 posted on 11/21/2014 8:53:05 AM PST by 556x45
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

In case you were wondering, this is exactly how Senators .... from both “parties”...... become multi-multi-multi millionaires.


5 posted on 11/21/2014 8:53:22 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (The Mexicans are draining our battery instead of charging theirs.)
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Yeah ... the old “journalist investigation shoe” ...

Where the HELL are these bastards when it comes to telling - REPORTING - the TRUTH about Obama, Holder, the EPA ???


I believe Sharyl Attkisson could answer that one.


6 posted on 11/21/2014 9:00:53 AM PST by boycott
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Deals with Russia of any kind are suicide and guaranteed to be riddled over with corruption from start to finish. This is no different than outsourcing to the Soviet Union for our nuclear missiles. It’s dumb as hell.


7 posted on 11/21/2014 9:01:29 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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Correct


8 posted on 11/21/2014 9:11:25 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Howard Phillips Conservative)
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