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$40 billon Airplane deal to France: Could Bribery Be Involved?

Published 04/18/08 Economy In Crisis - Print Article
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There is certainly a haze over why the U.S. Air Force questionably awarded a massive $40 billion contract to European based E.A.D.S. and their Airbus division over the more qualified American based Boeing.

Could French bribes be involved? If so it wouldn't be the first time.

According to former CIA Director James Woolsey, France had been caught in the act of bribery by the U.S. “Echelon intelligence program several years ago as a way to counteract their lack of competitiveness.

Source: Renew America.us

Former CIA Director James Woolsey wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal a few years ago saying that the U.S. "Echelon" intelligence program had caught France in the act of bribery.

The former intelligence chief said the U.S. was not spying on European companies to steal their trade secrets. "They don't have much to steal. Instead, we were looking for evidence of bribery." Or to put fine point on it: "Your companies' products are often more costly, less technologically advanced, or both, than your American competitors. As a result, you bribe a lot."

The U.S. Department of Commerce has also cited French spying on American firms. So too has the European parliament.

Our elected officials and their appointees are put in office to do what is in the best interests of America. This recent deal to France is in the best interest of a foreign country- not America.

Every American should vehemently protest this contract by contacting and voicing their outrage to their congressional representatives.

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