WASHINGTON, DC – Last year, Law Enforcement Today warned about an Obama-era program that, in cooperation with Microsoft, transferred over 80 percent of the federal government’s and Department of Defense infrastructure and services to the Bill Gates-owned company. Meanwhile, 98 percent of the support for IT infrastructure and services overseas was transitioned to Microsoft, with over 90 percent of that being facilitated in communist China.
Now, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that the Pentagon is “looking into” the cloud-based program that uses foreign workers from China, employed by Microsoft. Earlier this week, Pro-Publica, late to the party, accused Microsoft of using the China-based engineers to assist with Pentagon cloud systems, Fox News Digital reported. They claimed the systems have “inadequate guardrails” in place to protect sensitive data.
In an announcement this past week, Hegseth addressed the reporting that “some tech companies have been using cheap Chinese labor to assist with DoD cloud services.” Hegseth called this “unacceptable, especially in today’s digital threat environment.”
“Now, this was a legacy system created over a decade ago by the Obama administration. But we have to ensure that the digital systems we use here at the Defense Department are ironclad and impenetrable. And that’s why today I’m announcing that China will have no involvement, whatsoever, in our cloud services effective immediately,” Hegseth continued.
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— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) July 18, 2025
Hegseth also promised a two-week review to make sure that what was uncovered isn’t happening “anywhere else within the DoD.”
Microsoft (coincidentally, no doubt) received the contract after Obama appointed Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, to his 20-member President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Mundie “was credited with being the key Microsoft executive who was able to speak to the company’s China strategy,” LET reported, noting that “he served as Microsoft’s ‘decision-maker’ for that strategy for 13 of the company’s 18 years in the China market.”
It should be noted that Microsoft had donated nearly $3 million in political campaign funds in 2008 when Obama ran for president, with $2.12 million of that total going to Democrats and the remainder, $844,586, to Republicans.
By Pat Droney
