The toughest rhetoric against potential presidential candidate Mitch Daniels so far isn't coming from his rivals. Computer giant IBM is launching a scathing attack on the Indiana governor over a pair of high-stakes lawsuits concerning a contract with the state that he cut short in 2009.
Daniels canceled a 10-year $1.37 billion contract with IBM to update the state's social services system three years in after numerous complaints and critical articles about its effectiveness. Indiana then sued IBM to recover over $400 million it had already paid.
IBM responded with its own suit demanding the state pay about $100 million for equipment already provided to Indiana. Now the company is demanding Daniels and his chief of staff give sworn depositions in the case and claiming that Daniels is betraying his campaign promises about transparency in government by refusing to comply.
"It's been hypocrisy from the beginning," IBM spokesman Clint Roswell told TPM.
Roswell added that Daniels' "refusal to be deposed and his attempt to hide public documents casts doubt on his credibility" and that he "expects transparency and openness from everybody but himself."
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