https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/50506

NONAME NIXED A BOEING CONTRACT FOR ONE WITH European Aeronautic Defence and Space

McCain, you see, was flying into Boeing Field on a Boeing 737 after having

worked earlier in this decade to kill a deal to lease Boeing 767 jets to the

Air Force for use as refueling aircraft. Two people went to jail and

Boeing's then-chief executive resigned over the controversial deal,

subsequently shelved.

Earlier this year, the Air Force decided to award a renewed $35 billion

tanker contract not to Boeing, but the European Aeronautic Defence and Space

Co. - parent company of Boeing rival Airbus - and its U.S. partner, Northrop

Grumman Corp.

Some of McCain's advisers lobbied for EADS, but the Arizona senator and

former Navy pilot denied interceding on their behalf and defended his

oversight of the tanker contract.

"I had nothing to do with the contract, except to insist in writing, on

several occasions, as this process went forward, that it be fair and open

and transparent. That was my involvement in it," he said in mid-March.