Whistleblower Says Halliburton Contract Abuse Blatant

[maddezmom]

By Joanne Morrison

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official on Friday called the government's grant of multi-billion dollar contracts to oil services giant Halliburton the worst case of contracting abuse she has ever seen.



"It was misconduct, and part of that misconduct was blatant," said Bunny Greenhouse, in an interview on NBC's Nightly News program.


Greenhouse has already demanded an investigation into the contracts that last year were granted to Halliburton, the energy services firm run by Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) from 1995-2000. According to her attorney, the FBI (news - web sites) has since asked her for an interview on the matter.


A spokesman for President Bush (news - web sites) on Friday said the president expects a full investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in how Iraq (news - web sites)-related contracts were awarded to Halliburton.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041030/ts_nm/iraq_halliburton_whistleblower_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

Where have we heard full investigation before??? Missing Explosives, 9/11 CIA Report, Plame, Abu Ghraib, Energy Papers, Frist's hacker, etc. Anyone please list the ones you remember.

[Overseas]

1. Still listed as 2.4 rating onYahoo

Hope we'll all boost it up.

[mom cat]

2. Stock tip: Invest in Whistles..

[Pithy Cherub]

3. Many blessings to Bunny

for courage and big brass ones! Luv Ya Bunny!

[acmavm]

4. 9:26 p.m. CST

You have given the news article Whistleblower Says Halliburton Contract Abuse Blatant a rating of 5.
Its current average rating is 3.34 with 54 vote(s).

[maddezmom]

5. another AP link: Pentagon Extended Halliburton Contract

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20041030/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/halliburton

[noamnety]

6. related to this

Dan Spillane's been notified by a congressional aide that the WH is refusing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for information regarding communications after the Aug 6 memo (ties in with the article "White House Memo Leads to Sept. 11th Money Trail" at http://www.libertywhistle.us.

The FOIA request: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x81760

[Peanut Gallery]

7. the president expects a full investigation...

someday

[VegasWolf]

10. by 2008! n/t

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[JNelson6563]

8. Give it a 5!

The shit is hitting the fan for BushCo. right now. Let's keep it on top, in spite of the media-whores' best efforts.

Julie

[pacalo]

9. Article rating is up to 4.16

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11. 4.16 and rising ... :)

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[Swamp Rat]

12. Kick

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[Mira]

13. Original Message

This ought to reverberate around the country. I have waited for this info. Hard to grasp the fraud and deception and greed.
This could rock the vote if we find a way to get loud about it.