Pentagon watchdog unable to 'definitively' determine if White House influenced JEDI contract | TheHill

The Pentagon's watchdog in a report released on Wednesday said it was not able to "definitively determine" whether the White House influenced the Department of Defense's (DOD) decision to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft over Amazon. The department's inspector general office said it was unable to rule on the issue because the DOD's general counsel instructed witnesses not to answer questions about conversations between the White House and Pentagon because of “the assertion of a ‘presidential communications privilege.’” https://thehill.com/policy/technology/492939-pentagon-watchdog-unable-to-definitively-determine-if-white-house