Yep, the usual suspects are sitting down to feast: Dominant vendors get a fat slice of CIA cloud pie and so do IBM and Oracle

AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and IBM can celebrate Thanksgiving safe in the knowledge they have won a place on the US Central Intelligence Agency’s lucrative Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract. Thought to be worth tens of billions of US dollars, the contract is set to see the companies compete for business with the CIA …

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

In politics

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

[FlamingDeath]

Re: In politics

Do sociopaths have friends and enemies?

I thought they only see opportunity, and the means to an end

[onemark03]

sociopaths have friends?

Sociopaths don't have friends.

(Maybe acqaintances but no friends.)

[Anonymous Coward]

Government links

Is there any way this article could be moved a bit further away from some of the ones which bang on about the close links between Chinese companies and their government? It's a little awkward having them so close by.

And seventeen US intelligence agencies? Really? I never thought I would say this, but I had never realised how much intelligence there was in the US government!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Government links

"how much intelligence there was in the US government". That's a good question.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Government links

And what happens when you divide it by 17+1 agencies (nobody talks about the MMB)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Government links

More so the question about whether its good intel or bad!

[FlamingDeath]

Re: Government links

INTEL

“Is this real world or exercise” someone once said 20 years ago

[Youngone]

Re: Government links

I was also struck by "the CIA and the 16 other intelligence community agencies."

That's a lot of secret policemen. Erich Honecker would have loved that.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Government links

You have to assume that they spend a lot of time spying on each other

[FlamingDeath]

Re: Government links

Project Paperclip

[aki009]

Re: Government links

Government intelligence. That's an oxymoron right there.

[FlamingDeath]

Re: Government links

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[FlamingDeath]

Re: Government links

There is nothing of intelligence that these people do

The unintelligent and insecurity services do just that, make stupid selfish decisions which lead to insecurities and instability. IT’S WHAT THEY DO

The 45 minute dossier was a “piece of intelligence”

Others may argue it was a crock of shit

Some may even dare to shout “LIES!”

[Danny 2]

I heard there will be a Trump vaccine available by early January. Of course not everyone who can be immunised will want to be, but we should reach jerk immunity by summer.

[DS999]

Unfortunately once someone is infected by Trump it seems there is no cure, and the only immunity they have is to facts!

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

If there was a vaccine against being anti-vax would we know?

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Haspel and other officials have reportedly said releasing it publicly would hurt sources and damage methods of intelligence-gathering in a serious way.

It'll only be a matter of time before someone forgets to secure storage and it'll be all out in the open

[Kabukiwookie]

Gina Haspel can always go back to tort^H^H^H^H enhanced interrogation techniques.

[Potemkine!]

They forgot Alibaba!

(rolleyes)

[Chairman of the Bored]

I thought...

...the point of a source selection was to foster competition, which would force vendors to offer a compelling product at a competitive price. Use open or standards-based requirements to avoid vendor lock-in, and rinse/repeat every few years.

If everyone wins, it's not a competition. You get a 'national team' like NASA's National Space Alliance. That worked well <snort>

[FlamingDeath]

Re: I thought...

In an echo chamber, shouting “I love you” is very reaffirming

[FlamingDeath]

So now is a good time to exit this shit show of an industry?

These sociopathic sycophants are practically falling over themselves to get into bed with the military industrial complex. If you thought IBM collaborating with the Nazis ended badly, wait until this mountain of cunts band together