Report deals new blow to Boeing tankers

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Air Force failed to use a true competitive process to choose Boeing Co. over Europe's Airbus for a stalled $20 billion-plus plan to lease and buy refueling aircraft, according to a Pentagon-commissioned report.

The analysis by the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, obtained by Reuters on Wednesday, also says the Air Force appeared to have made "only limited use of considerable government buying power and leverage to obtain maximum discounts."

The report, which has not been officially released, is one of a series of studies requested by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to help decide the fate of the Air Force plan to lease 20 modified Boeing 767 tankers and buy 80 more.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5020711/

This case alone would start a Repuke impeachment of Clinton along with a Media Whore frenzy.

The Bush Crime Family, the most corrupt Adm. in the history of the United States.

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1. Interesting enough, the news does NOT name Richard Perle

Perle Article Didn't Disclose Boeing Tie
Pentagon Adviser Lauded Plan to Lease Air Tankers
By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 5, 2003; Page E01


Pentagon adviser Richard N. Perle coauthored an opinion piece this summer praising a Pentagon plan to lease tanker aircraft -- which had the potential to steer billions of dollars to Boeing Co. -- 16 months after Boeing committed to invest $20 million with a venture capital firm where Perle was a principal.

"It takes a special government green-eyeshade mentality to miss the urgency of the tanker requirement," Perle and a coauthor wrote in the Aug. 14 article in the Wall Street Journal. The piece did not mention Boeing by name or Perle's firm -- Trireme Partners -- and its business relationship with the giant defense contractor.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37059-2003Dec4.html