You could make that argument for a lot of other government contracts, but does it sit well with you that it was Noem’s buddies who cashed in on this job?
it seems to me that the honorable way to award the work (if we accept your premise that this had to be handled clandestinely) would have been to have sought a seasoned contractor versus a start-up financially linked to the awarding secretary.
You are assuming that the seasoned firms are not polluted with leftist leakers with a grudge. This could have been the best way to avoid that.
It’s not uncommon to surround yourself with like minded people and only trust those you know. That’s why the current bureaucracy is a sewer of leftists.
> You could make that argument for a lot of other government contracts, but does it sit well with you that it was Noem’s buddies who cashed in on this job?<
ProPublica is making a stretch using generalities to tie this to Noem. Who hires strangers and enemies to do clandestine work?
EC
“it seems to me that the honorable way to award the work (if we accept your premise that this had to be handled clandestinely) would have been to have sought a seasoned contractor versus a start-up financially linked to the awarding secretary.”
Honor matters! Noem should resign, imo.