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Bezos says 'the country is in trouble' if big tech turns its back on the Pentagon: 'We are the good guys'

As Silicon Valley courts a closer relationship with the Pentagon, tech firms have faced backlash for pursuing lucrative Defense Department contracts.

Loosely referencing the sequence of events in the wake of Google's Project Maven, Bezos said that tech firms should support the U.S.

Bezos' comments come on the heels of Amazon's decision to contest the Pentagon's cloud-computing contract awarded to Microsoft.

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