>>2430708 (Previous Q Post)
>Who owns the Washington Post?
Jeff Bezos
>Amazon?
Well, Jeff Bezos is the Founder of Amazon, so I would assume his is owner as well.
>What ABC agency is heavily tied to Amazon?
The CIA. According to the article, they are looking to contract with Amazon for $30million worth of cloud-based services for their "secret" storage.
"Top CIA technology official Sean Roche gave an enthusiastic review on Wednesday of the agency’s multimillion-dollar cloud computing deal with Amazon.com Inc.
“It’s been nothing short of transformational,” Roche, the CIA’s associate deputy director of digital innovation, said at an Amazon conference in Washington. “It has transformed our ability to build new capabilities.”
Roche said the $600 million contract, which was awarded to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2013, has given the CIA the opportunity to evaluate which legacy technology systems are worth keeping and whether there are other high-quality products the agency should be using instead.
“You do not move to the cloud or buy new hardware so you can host legacy services,” he said.
Roche spoke at the AWS Public Sector Summit at a time when Seattle-based Amazon is considered to be the leading candidate for the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition to provide broad-based cloud services to the agency. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has publicly praised the CIA’s venture into the cloud."
Cont: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/cia-tech-official-calls-amazon-cloud-project-transformational
Q, could you please clue me in as to:
1.) How is it not illegal for the owner of a newspaper to contract with a government entity to provide any such service?
2.) How is this not, at best, unethical and an extreme conflict of interest, and at worst, in violation of monopoly laws?
3.) Is the CIA not bright enough to create its own cloud-based storage? Further, what longitudinal data is there to suggest that cloud-based storage of sensitive/secret data is safe? Further yet, what guarantees do the American taxpayers (who will pay for $30 Million contract) have that the CIA/Washington Post/Amazon won't collude and conspire to advance the political propaganda of the Washington Post?
This is major FUCKERY Q! How do we STOP it?!?