Days before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump made two surprise calls to the Air Force general managing the Pentagon’s largest weapons program, the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 jet.
Listening in on one of those calls was Dennis Muilenburg -- the CEO of Lockheed’s chief rival, Boeing Co.
[Boeing] makes a fighter jet Trump has suggested might be an alternative to the F-35
He appeared caught off-guard but was able to listen in on the call
Speaking to reporters Thursday after a congressional hearing on the F-35, [Lt Gen] Bogdan said that Muilenburg listening to the call “was not inappropriate. The things I talked about in front of Mr. Muilenburg were clearly publicly releasable information. I understand the rules.”
Submitted February 16, 2017 at 12:31PM by wanmoar http://ift.tt/2lPSbAe
