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Anonymous ID: 5bfe7d May 17, 2019, 12:04 p.m. No.6522630   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3139 >>3345

Attorney General William Barr: Explanations for Government Spying on Trump Campaign ‘Don’t Hang Together’

 

Attorney General William Barr said in a recent interview that the answers he has gotten to why the government began spying on the Trump campaign in 2016 are “inadequate” and have raised more questions than before.

“I’ve been trying to get answers to questions and I found that a lot of the answers have been inadequate. And I’ve also found that some of the explanations I’ve gotten don’t hang together,” Barr told Fox News’s Bill Hemmer in an exclusive interview.

 

So in a sense, I have more questions today than I did when I first started. Some of what things don’t hang together, some of the explanations of what occurred. People have to find out what the government was doing during that period. If we’re worried about foreign influence, for the very same reason shouldn’t we be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale? I’m not saying that happened, but I’m saying that we have to look at that,” he said.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/17/william-barr-explanations-government-spying-trump-campaign-dont-hang-together/

Anonymous ID: 5bfe7d May 17, 2019, 12:40 p.m. No.6522864   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2880 >>3139 >>3345

Conservatives ask White House to abandon Amazon talks over Pentagon contract

 

A coalition of five conservative groups sent a letter to the White House on Friday asking the Trump administration to abandon negotiations with Amazon over a lucrative $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract.

 

In a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) acting director Russell Vought, the conservatives argued that the criteria for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract had “severely restricted the number of potential providers."

The letter was signed by the presidents of the American Conservative Union, the Institute for Liberty, Taxpayers Protection Alliance, the organization Limited Government, and Citizens Against Government Waste.

The groups argued that the bidding process for the Pentagon contract was set up in a way that "predetermines" that the contract goes to a company with Level 6 cloud security requirements to host secret and top-secret data.

Critics of the procurement process maintain that such requirements are unnecessary and that Amazon is likely the only vendor that can fulfill them.

 

In the letter, the conservative groups said they’re also concerned about “the security impact of consolidating the services requested in the proposal to one unified platform, rather than using multiple cloud services.”

“The sole source single award procurement process for the JEDI cloud services project should be abandoned and revised to allow for multiple vendors,” the groups said in the letter. “We also urge the Office of Management and Budget to take steps to ensure that all future cloud services procurements by government agencies follow industry best practices by using multiple awards as the preferred solution for cloud services.”

Amazon and Microsoft are said to be the two finalists for the contract, but critics have said that the process has been biased to ensure that Amazon is the sole winner.

A spokesperson for Amazon did not respond to a request for comment on Friday.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/444323-conservatives-ask-white-house-to-abandon-amazon-talks-over-pentagon

Anonymous ID: 5bfe7d May 17, 2019, 12:44 p.m. No.6522886   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2894 >>2909 >>2934 >>3139 >>3304 >>3345

Trump: Anonymous news sources are 'bullshit'

 

President Trump on Friday railed against the use of anonymous sources in news reports about his administration, calling it "bullshit."

 

The president went on a tangent during remarks to the National Association of Realtors in Washington, D.C., complaining about news coverage of his administration's approach to Iran.

 

He disputed that he is at odds with some of his top advisers on the issue before mocking the way some of the reports use unnamed administration officials.

 

"Do you ever notice they never write the names of people anymore?" Trump said. "Everything is 'a source says.' There is no source. The person doesn’t exist. The person’s not alive. It’s bullshit, OK? It’s bullshit."

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/444322-trump-anonymous-news-sources-are-bullshit

Anonymous ID: 5bfe7d May 17, 2019, 12:57 p.m. No.6522974   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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