Cronyism comes before Military & nuke needs....

From American Progress:

MILITARY -- PENTAGON AWARDS CROOKED CONTRACTOR $28 MILLION:

In April 2005, Interstate Electronics Corp. was placed under federal criminal investigation after the contractor supplied defective emergency radio parts to the U.S. military, which makes up 75 percent of company's business. The Pentagon also suspected Interstate of supplying "thousands of other, potentially substandard parts over the years to a wide range of Army and Air Force weapons systems." Evidently, these wrongdoings weren't a problem for the U.S. military, which just awarded the contractor a $27.9 million contract "to support the test instrumentation hardware for most of America's nuclear missile fleet, and all of Britain's."

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