Revealed: British firms paid $60 billion by Obama’s Pentagon - TruePublica
British companies have earned
more than $60 billion from US military contracts since President Obama
came to power eight years ago, a Bureau analysis of Pentagon spending
has found.
As the Bureau of Investigative Journalism exclusively revealed on
Sunday, controversial UK public relations firm Bell Pottinger received
over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq following the US invasion.
But Bell Pottinger’s windfall represents only a fraction of what the Pentagon has paid British firms.
Between 2009 and the end of 2015, total spending by the Department of
Defense (DoD) on goods and services from the private sector at large
was more than $2.3 trillion. The vast majority went to companies based
in the US, but the Bureau’s calculations show British companies got at
least $1 in every $40 spent by the DoD.
