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CACI loses fight to keep intell contract

A bid protest by CACI International Inc. over the loss of one of its contracts with the Defense Intelligence Agency was denied by the Government Accountability Office.

CACI alleged that Mission Essential Personnel misrepresented the personnel it would use on the contract to outscore CACI, the incumbent on a contract with DIA to intelligence analysts.

The contract is used by the DIA for counter-terrorism analysts and experts who support the Defense Department and the Office of Military Commissions and the Justice Department with litigation and document reviews involving detainees and former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

CACI said that Mission Essential Personnel tried to recruit five CACI employees supporting DIA on the incumbent contract to join the company and continue working. The attemptLate Friday afternoon, pundit and commentator Mark Towhey announced on Twitter that he was to be the new editor-in-chief of Sun News, responsible for the Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Calgary Sun newspapers. Given Towhey’s lack of any background in journalism, and the fact that the Toronto Sun is already headed by another alum of the office of former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, it appeared that it may have been a poorly timed, early April Fool’s joke.

Postmedia, however, has confirmed it is not.

"Please check your privilege" is the 21st Century anti-white equivalent of the N-word. https://t.co/S1dvTTFGvX — Mark Towhey (@towhey) March 6, 2018

After helping elect Ford to the Toronto mayoralty, and serving in his office as director of policy and strategy and later chief of staff, Towhey co-authored