Paul Bradford writes for American Greatness about a major tech company’s questionable actions.
Microsoft is one of the largest tech providers for the American government. That’s in spite of the company’s cozy ties with China and its products’ numerous security risks. It’s also a company with a noted left-wing bias, which puts it at odds with the Trump administration.
The tech giant’s current relationship with the government doesn’t put the nation first, but that may soon change. The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) has called on the Department of Justice to review Microsoft’s many problems and reassess the government’s relationship with the company.
Microsoft has caught the eye of someone very important in the administration. The president lashed out last year at the company for hiring Lisa Monaco, a former Biden official. “Monaco has been shockingly hired as the President of Global Affairs for Microsoft, in a very senior role with access to Highly Sensitive Information,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Monaco’s having that kind of access is unacceptable, and cannot be allowed to stand. She is a menace to U.S. National Security, especially given the major contracts that Microsoft has with the United States Government.”
Monaco’s role at Microsoft is one of the reasons AAF wants the government to look into its relationship with the tech giant. According to the group’s report, then-Deputy Attorney General Monaco played a key role in the Biden administration’s ignoring Microsoft’s security risks and vulnerabilities. Monaco isn’t the only Biden official with close ties to Microsoft. There are five others with senior roles in both the previous administration and the company. Many of them worked on Microsoft-related matters while in the government. This raises obvious ethical issues.
Microsoft’s security risks and vulnerabilities are numerous, according to AAF:
Between 2019 and 2023, Microsoft suffered five major cyber intrusions perpetrated by Russian intelligence services, Chinese state-sponsored actors, and Russian cybercriminal groups. Taken together, the intrusions were among the most damaging series of breaches of U.S. government information systems in American history.
