Pentagon’s IG “could not definitively determine” whether the W.H. influenced the procurement process for a major cloud computing contract because Defense Department officials were not allowed to answer questions on the subject
so Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who had recently taken the job, could review allegations that Amazon had been unfairly given an advantage for the contract.
Trump also repeatedly attacks Bezos, and the Washington Post which Bezos owns, on Twitter. In October, an aide to former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis published a book that said Trump called his defense chief in 2018 and told him to "screw Amazon" out of the JEDI contract. "We carefully considered this response and concluded it would not be an appropriate and practical way to conduct our review, because there was no assurance as to which questions would be answered, it would unduly delay the report, it would not allow for an interview and inevitable follow up questions, and it would not assure that we would be receiving full information from the witnesses," the IG report said. "We therefore declined to proceed in this manner.
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