NEW SCRUTINY FOR BOEING DEAL

For months, watch­dog groups like the Project on Government Oversight have been howl­ing about the Air Force’s deal with Boeing to lease 100 tankers — even though the lease would cost $5.6 bil­lion more than buy­ing the planes out­right.
Now, the national press’ major play­ers are start­ing to catch up. Today, New York Times colum­nist David Brooks called the deal “the Encyclopaedia Britannica of shady. It’s as if some­body spent years try­ing to gather every sin­gle sleazy aspect of mod­ern Washington and cram it all into one leg­isla­tive effort.“
Yesterday, the Washington Post exam­ined on its front-​​page the sor­did machi­na­tions sur­round­ing the Boeing con­tract in excru­ci­at­ing detail. And the paper pro­files the “Dragon Lady” who helped ram the deal through.

October 28th, 2003 | Uncategorized | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.