Democratic senators call for federal probe into Musk’s contact with Russia

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 22:13:28 | Updated at 2024-11-23 12:07:52 1 week ago

Democratic senators call for federal probe into Musk’s contact with Russia
The Hill ^ | 11/15/2024 | Miranda Nazzaro

Posted on 11/15/2024 2:06:04 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A pair of Democratic senators called for a federal investigation into Elon Musk’s involvement in SpaceX’s federal contracts following reports the tech billionaire has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a letter sent Friday, Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said Musk’s reported relations with a U.S. adversary “pose serious questions” about his “reliability as a government contract and a clearance holder.”

Shaheen is a senior member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees.

Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, holds contracts with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community worth billions of dollars. He is also a “prime contractor” for the Space Force’s National Security Space program and holds a $1.8 billion classified contract with the National Reconnaissance Office, the lawmakers noted.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: contact; demagogicparty; demagogues; democratic; federal; jackreed; jeanneshaheen; musks; newhampshire; probe; rhodeisland; russia; senators; smear; stringthemup

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They can't help themselves

To: ChicagoConservative27

Is Russia officially an enemy of the United States or just a Boogeyman for the Democrats?

2 posted on 11/15/2024 2:08:05 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)

To: ChicagoConservative27

Stop giving these evil cretins any written/reportage space. Ignore them. Giving them written space gives them credibility. They have none. Plus, they are helpless. Without power. Zilch. Nada. Niente. Ignore them.

To: ChicagoConservative27

4 posted on 11/15/2024 2:10:51 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)

To: ChicagoConservative27

They had nothing to say about the Walz direct connections with China or his Chinese girlfriend.

And of course nothing about Chinese agents going through classified docs in Biden’s Corvette.

5 posted on 11/15/2024 2:11:45 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)

To: ChicagoConservative27

Stupid Move...He provides Starlink to Ukraine.

With the flip of a switch....poof...

6 posted on 11/15/2024 2:12:44 PM PST by Sacajaweau

To: P-Marlowe

Is Russia officially an enemy of the United States or just a Boogeyman for the Democrats?

Russia seems to be the hinge upon which all of the entire deep-state/Democrat fears, hopes, dreams, corruption, propaganda, etc... swings.

I don't know why this is, but we are lucky they haven't pushed us into nuclear war yet.

7 posted on 11/15/2024 2:13:00 PM PST by PGR88

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