Halliburton's KB&R abused regulations, report says

[Swede]

"I'm convinced that this is the biggest waste, fraud and abuse in the history of this country," Dorgan said.

If the Democrats take control of the Senate, he said, they will launch oversight hearings on war matters ranging from faulty intelligence leading up to the war to wrongdoing by contractors.


The special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction found that Houston-based Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown & Root Services routinely marked all information it gave to the government as proprietary, whether it actually was or not. The government promises not to disclose proprietary data so a company's most valuable information is not divulged to its competitors.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4292513.html

[williesgirl]

1. Bring on those subpoenas! recommended

[Semi_subversive]

2. I had a wonderful thought

What if the Dem congress brought in Bunny Greenhouse to head up their investigations of procurement improprieties? Oh, what a wonderful world!

[Mnemosyne]

3. I love the way you think! n/t

:hi:

[Semi_subversive]

4. I'm a State of CA Procurement and Contracting official

We're beyond anal about how goods and services are acquired. We're worse than auditors and damned proud of it. Just let us unleash the fury of Goddess Bunny on these thieving bastards and grab the popcorn. It would be one hell of a show!

[Mnemosyne]

10. She was treated despicably.

Anyone honest and decent is punished? How parallel universe is that?! :crazy:

[wholetruth00]

5. A ne Dem ad should say: We may not impeach but we will certainly

go after the contractors who profiteered on the backs of our dead soldiers.

[mcscajun]

6. And, in other news: Tuesday follows Monday, and the Sun rises in the East.

No Film at Eleven.

They're kidding, right? Halliburton wouldn't actually abuse regulations for profit, would it? :sarcasm:

[Marrak]

7. I'm only on page 179 of

"State of Denial"...just as Bremer's CPA hijacks/displaces Garner...like two months after the invasion...Christ what a cluster-fuck...that's just among the Americans "leading" this fiasco! DRummy's been fucking-up from the get go...damn...I can only image the opening their incompetence left in it's wake: graft, corruption and just plain larceny, massive over the top abuses...the CPA hemorageing stacks of CASH $$$ and every body's walking around hugging their balls and dragging their knuckles...on edge with the lack of fucking planing for OCCUPATION & HUMILIATION of a rather significant nation-state, oil, culture, ethnicity, etc. I forgot...hurry-up Invade Iraq WMD! And what is unbelievable this far into this unmitigated disaster is that DRummy's still there!...

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. AP's Version - Report: Halliburton unit exploited rules

Oct 28, 2006

WASHINGTON - The Halliburton subsidiary that provides food, shelter and other logistics to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan exploited federal regulations to hide details on its contract performance, according to a report released Friday.

The special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction found that Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown & Root Services routinely marked all information it gave to the government as proprietary, whether it was or not. The government promises not to disclose proprietary data so a company's most valuable information is not divulged to its competitors.

By marking all information proprietary — including such normally releasable data as labor rates — the company abused federal regulations, the report says.

In effect, Kellogg, Brown & Root turned the regulations "into a mechanism to prevent the government from releasing normally transparent information, thus potentially hindering competition and oversight."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061028/ap_on_go_ot/iraq_contracts


Here's the thread from GD regarding this story - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2498181

[Fleshdancer]

9. DUer CorpGovActivist gives us more of the Halliburton story here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2498181#2500439