JRL NEWSWATCH: “Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations” – Bloomberg
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- “Warren calls on Pentagon to look into decision over attack
- Musk, other tech chiefs will meet with senators on Wednesday”
“… Warren is demanding an investigation into SpaceX after Elon Musk acknowledged he had blocked Ukraine from extending the private Starlink satellite network for an attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast. … Musk said. ‘… If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.’ … SpaceX has won Pentagon contracts to launch spy satellites … [but] had no defense contracts for … Starlink in Ukraine at the time that [Ukraine’s] leaders asked Musk to extend … coverage for an attack on Russian warships. [DOD] more recently has begun to … [help fund] Starlink’s use in Ukraine.”