has anyone seen this letter to NYT re Halliburton?

[Bhaisahab]

if so, has this person's story been covered by TV news? just wondering....
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To the Editor:

Re "Halliburton Defends Record in Iraq on Capitol Hill" (news article, July 23):

On July 22, Halliburton representatives claimed before Congress that I was not qualified to judge the company's performance. Earlier this year, when I was its employee, Halliburton management gave me the task, among other things, to scrutinize all of Kuwait's Kellogg, Brown & Root subcontracts and purchase orders, to report whether legitimate competition took place in more than 5,000 procurement transactions.

Did Halliburton's management assign me, a "naïve" Army chaplain, to evaluate criteria for paying subcontracts because it thought that I would miss the fact that hundreds of subcontract files had little or no documentation to demonstrate cost controls? Or did Halliburton give me this task because of the credibility that my 10 years as an Army officer with numerous fiscal responsibilities would provide to its reports?

Now that Halliburton has implicitly announced before Congress that it used unqualified staff to gather critical information for government audits and reports, I recommend that the Justice Department expand its current investigation of Halliburton beyond Al Tamimi and La Nouvelle subcontracts to include all of the procurement actions generated through the Kuwait and Iraq contracts.

Marie E. deYoung
Lansdowne, Pa., July 29, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/opinion/l30halliburton.html

[War Pigs]

1. Keep Cheney on the ticket, pretty please!

:toast:

[Robbien]

2. Wow, I am surprised the NYT printed it

The story has been on PBS (NOW I believe). But very little coverage in the mainstream press.