Whistleblower Asks for Halliburton Investigation

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official has demanded an investigation into contracts given to Halliburton, citing "improper action" that favored Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s old company.



According to documents made available to Reuters on Monday by congressional sources, Army Corps whistle-blower Bunnantine Greenhouse complained of "repeated interference" in billions of dollars of contracts given to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root for work in Iraq (news - web sites) and the Balkans.


"This interference was largely focused on multibillion-dollar contract issues pertaining to a Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root," said a letter faxed on Thursday to Acting Army Secretary Les Brownlee by lawyers for Greenhouse.


"As set forth below, employees of the U.S. government have taken improper action that favored KBR's interests," the letter said.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20041025/pl_nm/iraq_halliburton_dc

Go Bunny, GO!!!!

[MISSDem]

1. I heard this on NPR this morning.

[RobertSeattle]

2. Hmmm. Sell Halliburton short for 11/3 ?...

All the Bush/Cheney Crony Capitalism companies may have a rough day on 11/3 when Kerry wins...

[Steelangel]

3. FINALLY!

Slew these people!

[gatlingforme]

4. Thanks for the post. Halliburton are slime

[Sara Beverley]

5. I think if you check with orther big government construction contracts you

will find the the Halliburton subsidiaries have a lock on the most lucrative contracts and are guilty of huge cost overruns and poor quality of services.

[wysiwyg]

6. Good thing GOP blocked profiteering penalties!

Whew, how prescient was that? Those Republicans sure were lucky they demanded that penalties for war profiteering be dropped from the legislation funding the war. Who could have known?

[msanthrope]

7. Go Bunny, Go!!!! n/t

[maddezmom]

8. Beyond the Call of Duty (gov't whistle-blower on Halliburton "No-Bids")

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x928310

Thanks to UpInArms for the original post. :hugs: