Posted on 03/03/2017 1:49:22 PM PST by Kaslin
A North Carolina congressman is calling for a probe into a potential $418 million contract between Kenya and a major U.S. defense contractor announced on President Obama's last day in office -- a deal the lawmaker claims reeks of cronyism.
Republican Rep. Ted Budd wants the Government Accountability Office to investigate a deal between the African nation and New York-based L3 Technologies for the sale of 12 weaponized border patrol planes. He said he wants to know why a veteran-owned small company in North Carolina – which specializes in making such planes – was not considered as the manufacturer.
IOMAX USA Inc., based in Mooresville and founded by a U.S. Army veteran, offered to build Kenya the weaponized planes for roughly $281 million – far cheaper than what its competitor, L3, is selling them for.
"Something smells wrong here," Budd told Fox News. "The U.S. Air Force bypassed IOMAX, which has 50 of these planes already in service in the Middle East."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Well, well looky what we have here.
So this is how Barry, Moose and Lizard Lady can afford their fancy bunker.
Just a case of Obama making sure his REAL homeland is well-defended!
Hmmm...$418,000,000 vs. $281,000,000.
The obunghole State Dept managed to generate some last-minute slush-fund money that will mysteriously result in L3 Technologies contributing about $100,000,000 to the klintoon charities and the obunghole OFA wing of the communist party of the U.S.A.
(hat tip Kenya Sunday Standard)
HAS PRESIDENT OBAMA ACTUALLY DONE ANYTHING FOR HIS HOMELAND LATELY?
<><> 2 billion US tax dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood,
<><> $50 million US tax dollars to his tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Kenya.
<><> Total US Foreign Aid to Kenya (FY 2012): $749,236,440
<><> $418M arms sale to Kenya
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BACKSTORY ---- Secy Hillary's aide at the State Dept, Cheryl Mills, a govt employee, found time to run a side business.....the "BlackIvy Group," a consulting firm and property developer in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cheryl is (cough) "developing" a privately-financed dry port that will be located 56 km outside of the Port of Dar es Salaam, and will use shuttle trains to take transit and upcountry cargo to and from the Port,” BlackIvy spokeswoman Erin Pelton confirmed to Breitbart News.
“BlackIvy is focused on in-land logistics, not operating seaports,” Pelton added, denying that BlackIvy is running into opposition from the Tanzania Ports Authority.
So how did the US-based "BlackIvy," a brand new firm with no discernible track record of building ports, manage to become an overnight player in the East African energy market?
It turns out Secy Clinton's cronies had help from a company called Symbion Power, which was created to profit off rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan after the U.S. invasions. Symbion Power happens to be a very good friend of Hillary Clinton’s.
Longtime Clinton fixer, Sid Blumenthal was the conniving Clintons' bagman---a $325,000 employee of the Clinton Foundation (paid to advance Clinton's presidential (gag) legacy, he had numerous paid side interests----promoting any number of foreign deals and schemes in which he had a financial interest.....many of which were predicated on the toppling of Libya's Khadaffi.
Blumenthal was ambidextrous---chronically emailing Hillary Libya foreign policy messages w/ one hand....his other hand firmly in the State Dept cookie jar.
In one confidential e-mail to Clinton, Blumenthal was clearly colluding w/ onetime Amb Joe Wilson (Valerie Plame's hubby) to help himself to the tax dollars in the State Dept cookie jar.
GAME ON Amb Wilson teamed up w/ Blumenthal, pumping himself up as a 'director' of Symbion Power---an outfit seeking millions of dollars in contracts from an obscure State Dept government agency chaired by Hillary....the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC)
In September 2010, Hillary's MCC awarded Symbion $47 million tax dollars for (cough) 'power projects in Tanzania.'
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Obama pledges $7 billion tax dollars to upgrade power in Africa
CNN ^ | Updated 0044 GMT (0844 HKT) July 1, 2013 | By Faith Karimi and Matt Smith, CNN / FR Posted by vannrox
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged $7 billion Sunday to help combat frequent power blackouts in sub-Saharan Africa. Funds from the initiative, dubbed Power Africa, will be distributed over the next five years. Obama made the announcement during his trip to South Africa, the continent's biggest economy.
"Access to electricity is fundamental to opportunity in this age. It's the light that children study by, the energy that allows an idea to be transformed into a real business. It's the lifeline for families to meet their most basic needs, and it's the connection that's needed to plug Africa into the grid of the global economy," he said.
Two-thirds of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lacks access to electricity, including more than 85% of those living in rural areas, the White House said. "A light where currently there is darkness -- the energy to lift people out of poverty -- that's what opportunity looks like," Obama told students at Cape Town University.
"So this is America's vision: a partnership with Africa for growth, and the potential for every citizen, not just a few at the top."
PIC President Barack Obama kicks around an energy-generating soccer ball at a power plant in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Tuesday, July 2.
PIC Obama was pushing for partnerships in energy as he concluded a three-nation trip to Africa. Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, third from right, joined Obama at the Symbion Power Plant at Ubungo.
Obama invokes Mandela's legacy: The program includes $1.5 billion from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation and $5 billion from the Export-Import Bank, the White House said. Sub-Saharan Africa will need more than $300 billion to achieve universal electricity access by 2030, it said. The preliminary setup will include Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique. -- SNIP -- (Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Article says the “contract” is between L3 Technologies and Kenya. If so, why would the GSA have any business investigating? Would that be because the US taxpayer is giving Kenya the money to make the purchase? Why is the US REPUBLICAN Congress funding this? Trump should cancel this immediately.
I agree, he should
Kenya could buy almost 12 new Apache Longbow attack helicopters for $418 million.
Oh, it’s just one of several misprints about Obama! Surely he could not have been lying then nor lying now! /liberal logic
It boggles the mind!
He certainly helped his cousin Odinga. Oh sure there were a few deaths, some people with burning tires with gasoline in them around their necks, some churches burned down, riots, machetes, maiming.
He’s sure some “community organizer” of home-grown terrorism. And we knew this all in 2008; yet the idiots loose in America refused to listen and thought he was the greatest thing ever.
Cheryl Mills – BlackIvy Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Cheryl Mills is founder and Chief Executive Officer of the BlackIvy Group. Prior to BlackIvy, Ms. Mills served as Chief of Staff to Secretary Hillary Clinton and Counselor to the U.S. Department of State, where she managed foreign policy and operational priorities of the $55 billion agency that employs more than 20,000 officials across 180 countries. She supervised priority policy areas, including the Obama Administration’s $3.5 billion global hunger and food security initiative spanning 19 countries, 12 in Africa, and diplomacy and development efforts in Haiti.
http://blackivygroup.com/leadership/
0dungheap cares more about Kenya’s border than ours? Surprise, surprise!
Of course it’s cronyism!
No bids were requested and they offered it for double the cost. The extra money will be pocketed in Obamas pockets.
The obummer is so crooked he has to screw his socks on in the morning.....
You know I always thought about that, why would that article assume he was born in Kenya? Why would that book/pamphlet he wrote in college print that he was born in Kenya? Here is a guy who has no Kenyan accent, so WHY would they assume he was born in Kenya? Because HE said he was!!! Where ELSE would they get it from? Think about it, my mother was born in Scotland I was born in the USA. Im 54 never, never in my life has someone assumed I was born in Scotland as well. I have a New York accent, so why would someone assume I was born in Scotland unless I said I was? HE SAID he was born in Kenya!! Why would he say that? Either he was trying to use it to advantage OR he really was born in Kenya!
Good point-—he speaks perfect English.
He had to have had to tell them he was born in Kenya for it to be published.
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