Gates' - Halliburton Connection ..... LINK

[Blackhatjack]

With the ongoing investigation of Halliburton's KBR for contractor fraud in accounting for funds and supplying the troops in Iraq, it is interesting that the Rumsfeld replacement is so close to Halliburton interests. And Gates is coming onto the stage at a time when Halliburton is attempting to jettison KBR, and its potential liabilities, through an IPO.

Take a look:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Gates_and_Question_of_Independence_Part_1114.html

Intelligence sources question Gates' independence from Cheney, Rumsfeld

"Certainly Gates' business activities might make it difficult for him to push back against the formidable Cheney.

Gates has been on the board of directors for Parker Drilling Company since 2001. A major client-partner of Parker is Halliburton. In 2004, for example, Halliburton landed the Iride-Samaria Project in Mexico for $175 million, and Parker was brought into the project to provide the rigs and crews.

Serving on the Parker board with Gates is John W. Gibson, who until 2004 served as chief executive officer of Halliburton Energy Services and who acknowledges having gone hunting with Vice President Cheney.

Another member of the Parker board is Robert E. McKee III, who is currently the chairman of Eventure, a Shell-Halliburton joint project, as well as being the senior adviser to the Iraqi Oil Ministry

In addition to this, Gates serves with Donald Rumsfeld on the steering committee of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). CSIS is described in general as a neoconservative think tank, and in particular as a largely far-right funded institution, founded with Richard Scaife funds."

[Jon8503]

1. Thanks for this article, good catch & important.

Kicked. Un-fucking believable. I really wonder how much money, Halliburton has made (and cost US Taxpayers) on this war along with the VP. We have oversite now with the dems and I really, really hope they do their job. They need to be totally open for the public to see what has taken place and hopefully the public will pay attention.

[acmavm]

2. These guys are all attached at the bank account in one way

or another.

[Blackhatjack]

3. The 41 team was Halliburton infected before the 43 team took the field...

.... I am sure that Gates would be plenty upset about the total failure of Halliburton to account for funding, and its failure to supply the contracted needs to our troops.... if he was not already so close to Halliburton interests.

We argue over millions for social services in the US, and they cart off billions every month and the top brass in the military hardly make a sound.

Something is wrong with this picture....

[Blackhatjack]

4. The Interest in this topic is obviously under the radar, falls right off 1st page...

I am not sure whether DUers appreciate the importance of the Gates-Halliburton connection, or if they already were aware of it --and this post is a day late, dollar short.

When Gates arrives for his confirmation hearing, it should be a topic he is prepared to address. And if the Senators on that committee do not give him a thorough examination on this topic, you will know something is going on in the background.

[phoebe]

5. and let's not forget Carlyle Group which magically disappears from any

serious mention in the MSM. The actions of Bechtel, Halliburton et al. are routinely used as misdirection to draw the public's eyes away. That is the "trick"..

[Fovea]

6. We have become Japan

Welcome to the America of the Halliburton/KBR/CACI/Blackwell keiretsu.
It is triumphant, with media control supplied by its media groups, Faux and CNN.
It has experienced a temporary setback in its governmental division, but Karl assures us
they will be back online in time to rescue the Saudis from themselves.

We are crony capitalists. We manufacture the demand we supply. Our treasury (we still have the fed)
prints our (and the world's) medium of exchange.

We are not even vaguely energy or material sufficient.

We are Japan, circa 1980's The apotheosis of the crony is the
cardinal sign of doom.

It means that the former American diffracted society, where civil, equal-accessibility agencies
fulfill the functions of the common good- where justice and access is blind has
entered a prismatic state, a dual world that has all the outward apperance of a modern state, but also contains a seperate network of power,where patrons and elites control the common wealth, and its distribution to the peons through control of the 'modern' agencies.

Don't think so?
Try this thought experiment-- Pretend you are a Wiccan minister who wants to establish a faith based agency.
Now, imagine you are starting the same group, but you are a Baptist.

Imagine you want to start a private security agency that will compete with CACI and Blackwell.
Imagine you want to start a petroleum cooperative, a union, or a pharmacy coop.

You will find, I believe, a government employee specifically there to thwart you. They will have come straight from one of your competiors.
This is corporatism and the not so free market at work.

Industrial nations with modern infrastructures cannot actually achieve developing nation status, but they can emulate the insecurity of the security state. They can show shocking corruption with a straight face. The can turn militarist, like us. They can just stagnate for extended periods like Japan.
Or they can rebuild themselves by backing their people and respecting their system like the EU did over the past 50 years. It didn't make for immense wealth in the hands of a few, but it made for a much better place to live than the nations that cater to the uber-rich.