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VAN VOORHIS: Sec Def Mattis Should Reject Amazon’s Crony Capitalist Contracts

Peter Van Voorhis

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is at it again with his crony capitalist deals — this time for a ten-year cloud computing contract with the Department of Defense worth over $10 billion.

While crony capitalism is something we should be concerned about as conservatives, the national security implications of this deal are even more alarming. If the Department of Defense moves ahead with this deal, it would harm national security and destroy competition for government-wide cloud computing services.

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