Halliburton Work in Iraq Tops More Than $10 Billion

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Halliburton, the Texas company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), has been given more than $10 billion worth of business in Iraq (news - web sites) so far despite critical audits and investigations into its work.



According to figures released by the U.S. Army on Thursday, Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown and Root, the U.S. military's biggest contractor in Iraq, has work orders totaling $8.3 billion under a logistics contract to support U.S. troops.


Separately, KBR was given about $2.5 billion in work via a no-bid, March 2003 deal with the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild Iraq's oil industry, the Corps said.


~snip~

"The mounting value of the contracts has been accompanied by a growing list of concerns about Halliburton's performance," said Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), pointing to critical audits by the Pentagon (news - web sites) of the company's work in Iraq.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041209/ts_nm/iraq_halliburton_dc_2

[realFedUp]

1. Get Elliot Spitzer on the audit please

money's flown more easily to Halliburton
than through the pipelines in Iraq.

[struggle4progress]

2. No wonder the troops still don't have body armor. The Bushistas ...

... are just giving the money away to their buddies.

[maddezmom]

3. KBR has said it will likely pass on the costs of these unpaid bills to sub

The Army is also considering whether to implement a 15 percent withholding on future Iraq invoices from KBR, a punitive measure recommended by auditors because of a billing dispute.


Dan Carlson, a spokesman for Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Illinois, said it was unclear when a decision would be taken whether to impose the withholding.


"Everything is still being looked at and evaluated and we are making sure that crucial support is continued to troops," said Carlson.


KBR has said it will likely pass on the costs of these unpaid bills to sub-contractors and the Army fears this could disrupt critical supplies and services to U.S. troops in a war zone.

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Extortion??

[Just Me]

11. Extortion,...misappropriation,...fraud,...stupidity.

What are the "critical supplies and services": food, laundry, basic necessity stuff like that?

Of course, this represents only ten of the two hundred billion specifically appropriated for the war and does not include the additional hundreds of billions appropriated to the DoD.

There is something crooked about how none of this money is being spent for basic MILITARY necessities like armour (for soldier's bodies and on their vehicles).

Moreover, had the WAY overpriced private companies been set aside and the Iraqi people been given a means of survival via providing laundry services, distribution of humanitarian supplies, (continued) manufacture of clothes and other items,...we prolly wouldn't have quite so many rebels and insurgents.

But, NO,...this greed, power-mongering, heartless freakin' leadership had to funnel AMERICAN TREASURE to their capitalistic cronies,...ugh,...damnit,...

:argh:

[maddezmom]

12. wonder what Halli's share will be out of the new US funding of 75-100 bill

:eyes:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Makes you sick doesn't it?

[saigon68]

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[dflprincess]

6. Quick! Call Norm Coleman

I'm sure he'll want to look into this. <sarcasm on>

[goforit]

7. Now this is our deficit.

[fshrink]

8. How compassionate.

Laughing all the way to the bank. Everyday for 4 years and for the next 4. At least.

[maddezmom]

9. another link detailing some of investigations into Halliburton

The investigations of Halliburton's work in Iraq include:


_A criminal investigation into whether kickbacks were involved in Halliburton's use of a Kuwaiti subcontractor to provide gasoline for Iraq's civilian market. Halliburton says it notified federal authorities after an internal probe found two of its former employees may have been involved in corruption worth $6.3 million.


_A review of that fuel contract by the Defense Contract Audit Agency, which concluded Halliburton overcharged the Army by $61 million.


_An investigation by the former Coalition Provisional Authority's internal watchdog which found Halliburton could not account for scores of items in Iraq worth millions of dollars.


_A report by Congress' Government Accountability Office, which found a "pattern of contractor management problems" by the Army on Halliburton's largest Iraq contract. The nonpartisan GAO said the problems including taking more than a year to finalize the documentation on work orders worth billions of dollars.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=693&e=9&u=/ap/20041210/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_halliburton

[maddezmom]

10. also : Fed grand jury in TX for violation of trade emb. w/ Iran

Separately, a federal grand jury in Houston is hearing evidence to decide whether to indict Halliburton or current or former executives for violating the U.S. trade embargo on Iran. Foreign subsidiaries of Halliburton dramatically expanded their trade with Iran while Cheney headed the company. At issue is whether any U.S. citizens were involved in that work, which would violate the Iran embargo.


Halliburton and Cheney have denied any wrongdoing regarding Iran, one of the three countries President Bush (news - web sites) termed as part of an "axis of evil" with ties to both terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. But Dick "Chickenhawk" Cheney really cares about the loss of life. Really.

He's been known to wipe a tear from his eye on the way to the ATM.



:grr:

[I Love Alaska]

16. kick

[Nordic]

14. pure, unadulterated, corporate welfare

Our new mantra should be "end corporate welfare as we know it"

[DeepModem Mom]

15. kick

[DeepModem Mom]

17. kick

[Supersedeas]

18. that's billion with a 'B' and a Bush or two...family you know.