Under Amazon's CIA Cloud: The Washington Post

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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20778-under-amazons-cia-cloud-the-washington-post



Under Amazon's CIA Cloud: The Washington Post
Saturday, 21 December 2013 12:59
By Norman Solomon, Norman Solomon's Blog | Op-Ed

News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark.

The Post’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, is the founder and CEO of Amazon -- which recently landed a $600 million contract with the CIA. But the Post’s articles about the CIA are not disclosing that the newspaper’s sole owner is the main owner of CIA business partner Amazon

Even for a multi-billionaire like Bezos, a $600 million contract is a big deal. That’s more than twice as much as Bezos paid to buy the Post four months ago.

And there’s likely to be plenty more where that CIA largesse came from. Amazon’s offer wasn’t the low bid, but it won the CIA contract anyway by offering advanced high-tech “cloud” infrastructure.

[Enthusiast]

1. What a country!

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2. The Post and the CIA go way back together

Just check out Operation Mockingbird.

And they want us to think this is something new?