The Pentagon contract for the 100 aerial refueling tankers was worth $23.5 billion.
First, the Air Force gave Boeing five months to rewrite the specs.
It gave Airbus, a competitor, 12 days to bid on the deal.
Boeing’s bid met only seven of the 26 original capabilities the Air Force required.
Airbus met 20 of them.
And Airbus said it would do the job for $10 billion less than Boeing promised.
Guess who got the contract? Right.
How do we know this? Sen. John McCain, chairman of Senate Commerce, demanded the documents in the case, which has been under investigation for more than two years.
Who runs the Pentagon? That upstanding defender of the American Way of Life, Donald Rumsfeld.
In fairness, Pentagon procurement scandals go way back and have happened under Democratic and Republican administrations. And McCain is a Republican, too.
Fact is, the military-industrial complex is just that and its corruption is endemic.