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What the fuck lol. Everyone and their brother gets to download weapons secrets over a 4 year period and these chuckle-fucks get what amounts to a .006% of their yearly revenue fine.
They should go scorched-earth on their ass.
Yeah let's go scorched earth on one of the most important military contractors.
Yes, especially because of that! How can you build a military if your top military contractors are leaking state secrets to the enemy? Going scorched earth here would be making sure decision makers, especially among top management, get fired and disbarred from government contractors. It's not about destroying the company or its assets, it's about punishing negligence and investigating corruption among decision makers.
It's unfortunately not as simple as that, the government has to be really careful upsetting essential companies like defense contractors, as the military just straight up needs them (for new projects but also spare parts, fixes,...).
It's not a good relationship.
Edit: I definitely don't disagree with you though, stuff like this just shouldn't happen.
The problem is that they have to be careful not because of a national security interest, but because the wealthy people in charge of them fund their reelection.
If money got out of politics, it would be a simple issue to clean house at Boeing while keeping them on as a defence contractor, and both Boeing and the army would be better off.
Damn, sounds like relying on profit driven corporations for national defense was a really bad idea.
They seem to be doing a fine job on eliminating themselves
That’s like penny fine to me. Sure, I’ll pay it.
That's just the cost of doing business for Boeing and it's a fucking bargain!
"Agrees?!" Like it's a choice?
Of course it's a choice, it's a settlement. They could've refused and gone to court, where they probably would've ended up paying a lot more in fines (and legal fees)