Posted on 12/09/2019 9:10:15 AM PST by billorites
Amazon.com Inc. said President Trump exerted “improper pressure” on the Pentagon to keep a lucrative cloud-computing deal from going to his perceived political enemy, company founder Jeffrey Bezos.
In a complaint filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, Amazon said the president “launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks” on the contract and the company to steer the contract away from Amazon. Mr. Trump’s aim was “to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos,” according to the complaint, which was made public Monday.
Amazon was long considered the favorite to win the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract, which is valued at as much as $10 billion over the next decade.
Mr. Trump on July 19 called for an investigation of the Pentagon contract, before the award. “I’m getting tremendous complaints about the contract with the Pentagon and Amazon,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the time. “I will be asking them to look very closely to see what’s going on.”
The Defense Department investigated and cleared Amazon of conflict-of-interest allegations, but it nonetheless ruled in the end that Microsoft Corp. was more qualified for the job.
In congressional testimony, a top Pentagon technology official, Dana Deasy, has denied that Mr. Trump or the White House influenced the JEDI selection process.
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Perceived political enemy? He and the Post are the perceived political enemy of the American people.
Wrong - Bezos has done a great deal to improve my quality of life. I am thankful for his existence.
“The Defense Department investigated and cleared Amazon of conflict-of-interest allegations, but it nonetheless ruled in the end that Microsoft Corp. was more qualified for the job.”
The notion of Amazon being more qualified is either a misstatement or an outright prevarication. That’s not what was stated in the award or how federal procurements work. If two or more bidders meet the minimal qualifications as stated in the solicitation then other factors are considered in making the award, including security concerns and value to the government.
As long as you’re good, that’s all that matters.
Bezos and Amazon are already bigger than AT&T was in 1984 before it was broken up.
Moreover, Bezos owns the Washington Post and got 600 million to help the CIA.
Good to read President Trump is doing this.
It is time to break up Amazon’s monopoly.
How about “bezos wants to harm Trump”?
Separate AMZ for whatever benefits, Politically and ethically Bezos and The Washington Post are the enemy.
“Moreover, Bezos owns the Washington Post and got 600 million to help the CIA.”
There’s a very, very powerful Amazon woman mixed in that, too.
What has he done to vastly improve your quality of life?
Top officer of the company (aka Key Management Personnel) could could not qualify for a clearance due to poor judgement, adverse information, infidelity, disloyalty, and stupidity. Jeff, no dick picks to your girl friend while married, keep your nose clean, and do not buy a newspaper that spews hatred for the US if you want to be considered for classified contracts.
However, if you read "The Stealth War" by Robert Spaulding (Former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff representing the Air Force) you get an insight into Amazon and by extension, Bezos, that is troubling to say the least.
One of the weapons China uses against their economic foes of which we are the prime one, is intellectual property theft, and in particular, counterfeit goods.
In the counterfeiting of goods, large and small, Communist China treats it simply as another facet of warfare. There is no piece of thing too small (such as trinkets sold on television late at night) to be copied and sold for cheaper prices, and there is no concept so large (be it the F-35 Fighter, ballistic missile technology, or a host of information technologies) that the state cannot leverage the ostensible "free market" on it's behalf to be a tool to acquire, copy, and sell or use it.
It is a corrupt advantage that free countries cannot use, but Communist China has fully leveraged.
And Amazon is 100% complicit in this. (Full disclosure-I buy things from Amazon)
Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding said in a lecture:
And then all of a sudden, you notice you got a four-star rating, you got a three-star rating, then you get a returned package. You open it up and it’s a broken thing that looks like the product that you made, but you can tell right away that this is not the product you made, because you engineered your product not to break in the way that this did. Clearly, the packaging is not what you sent out.
And so you call Amazon up and you say, “Hey, I built this business and you’re letting this counterfeit be sold on your website in my name using my same marketing and advertising materials.” And Amazon says, “Hey, that’s not my problem. That’s your problem.” And you say to Amazon, “Okay, but can you give me the name of the company? And I’ll call them up and say stop it and we’re going to file a lawsuit.” And Amazon says, “Well, that’s not our policy.”
So it not only hurts big companies, it not only hurts the United States economy to the tune of $300 to $600 billion a year, it hurts individual entrepreneurs that want to start businesses in the United States. As everybody knows, most of our new jobs come out of startups — entrepreneurs that are coming up with a different way to do things — that is being absolutely destroyed by this pervasive ability to just steal everything.
$300-$600 Billion a year. Think of that.
I was astonished to find the USA has farmed out our military and intelligence databases to Amazon in the form of their AWS and server farms.
Astonished.
No good will come of that. No good. It could even be the seeds of our destruction.
Going to lose your ass Amazon. You lost because there have been serious concerns about your security. The Pentagon is not the only ones who dumped you for this.
so, what, he's supposed to ignore that? /rhetorical
Bezos found the niche first. It was a combination of timing and good luck. If he hadn’t done it someone else would have.
Blocking fast food chains from opening shop because of political & religious beliefs is just business?
“Bezos has done a great deal to improve my quality of life. I am thankful for his existence.”
That’s right, because e-commerce with time-sensitive home delivery would not exist without Bezos. Neither would Internet book sales, cloud computing, and streaming movies. And Washington Post would have remained the profitable business enterprise it always was. What a hero Bezos is.
He also needs to take Google apart.
This is obviously true. Bill Gates is a big fan of Trump. /s
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