MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday walked her audience through what she described as a “boring, scary story” – but one that she flagged as immensely important.“It is unrelentingly boring and unrelentingly scary in equal measure, and I have thought about this story every day since it broke and it is ...
They will do whatever they want. Probably just fire all the Contracting Officers. Then invalidate the contracts and refuse payment. Then buy everything under some emergency authority and have the agency head approve everything.
That’s not how any of this works. The contracts are with the individual people, listed by name. They assumed they could do what you said, and the law proved them, and you, wrong.
Obviously that’s not how it works legally, but they are blatantly telling judges they won’t listen to them. So I don’t have a lot of faith in past practices and CFR protecting us.