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Senators Call For IG Probe Into Tanker Doc Mixup As Panel Weighs Impacts

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Friday, January 28th, 2011

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By Emelie Rutherford Senators on a key panel yesterday struggled to assess whether European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) received an unfair advantage in the Air Force tanker competition after inadvertently viewing documents tied to Boeing's [BA] bid. And while Air Force investigators sought to convince the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) that the document mix-up did not overtly skew the tanker contest in favor of EADS, six senators called on Pentagon Inspector General Gordon Heddell to investigate the…

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