Despite probe, Cheney's former firm gets Iraq oil contract

[peterh]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/016/economy/Despite_probe_Cheney_s_former_:.shtml

WASHINGTON (AP) Despite a Pentagon probe into alleged overcharging for fuel delivered to Iraq, the Army awarded Vice President Dick Cheney's former company a contract Friday to rebuild Iraq's oil industry.
Halliburton won a competitive bid to rebuild the oil industry in southern Iraq, a contract worth up to $1.2 billion over two years, the Army Corps of Engineers said in a statement.
The Army gave Halliburton subsidiary KBR a no-bid contract to rebuild oil infrastructure throughout Iraq shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq last March. The Army opened that contract for competitive bids last fall and split it into one for northern Iraq and one for southern Iraq.
The northern Iraq contract, worth up to $800 million, went to a joint venture of California-based Parsons Corp. and the Australian firm Worley Group Ltd.
Just days before the Army's award to Halliburton, Pentagon auditors asked for an investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing involving the no-bid KBR oil industry reconstruction contract.
Officials in the Defense Department's Office of Inspector General haven't decided which investigators will do the work, the office said in a statement Friday.



Not included in the article is the following from Keith Ashdown, vice president for public policy at the nonpartisan
Taxpayers for Common Sense:

the decision was troubling because of the investigative cloud hanging over Halliburton's current contract.
Additionally, Ashdown said, the timing of the decision appeared to be timed with an eye toward burying the news. The Friday before a long weekend is "garbage day," Ashdown said. "Any announcement with political implications gets dumped on garbage day."



And I thought only DUers were aware of the Friday dump day….silly me..

[Jack_Dawson]

1. I'm shocked and awed

Not

:boring:

Typical day in Bushland.

[Chovexani]

2. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

:eyes:

[Torrey Pines]

This is the kind of thing that can get them in trouble,

but they don't seem to care. Apparently, this is what they're there for. So there!! ;-)

[arcane1]

3. WHY AREN'T THE IRAQIS MAKING THESE GODDAMNED DECISIONS??

the "regime change" is fucking OVER! "We got him!"

Was looting the oil part of Clinton's plan too?

Fucking fascists FUCKS!!!!

:grr:


sorry for the profanity, it was a knee-jerk reaction from a normally humble christian man....