FBI probes how Halliburton won contracts

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The FBI has begun investigating whether the US Defence Department improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co, seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices.

The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into allegations Halliburton overcharged US taxpayers for fuel in Iraq.

It elevates to a criminal matter the election-year question of whether the Bush administration showed favouritism to Vice President Dick Cheney's former company.

FBI agents this week sought permission to interview Bunnatine Greenhouse, the US Army Corps of Engineers' chief contracting officer who went public last weekend with allegations that her agency unfairly awarded KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for work in Iraq.

FBI Probes....

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