Halliburton gets another contract!

[El Supremo]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense Department announced on Thursday.

The announcement comes the same week that Vice President
Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the jail after U.S. lawmakers said it had created an image problem for the United States.

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[libertypirate]

1. psst

They have build two different facilities on the island....

The one we see and the one we don't see.

Note the award date... before 9-11


No. 386-02
5 p.m. ET July 26, 2002
http://www.defense.gov/contracts/2002/c07262002_ct386-02.html

Brown & Root Services, a division of Kellogg Brown & Root, Arlington, Va., was awarded today a $16,000,000 task order under a previously awarded cost reimbursement, indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity construction contract for construction of a 408-unit detention camp at the Radio Range area of U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Units will be of modular steel construction. Each unit measures 6 feet 8 inches by 8 feet and includes a bed, a toilet, and a hand basin with running water. Work will be performed in Guantanamo Bay and is to be completed by April 2002. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The basic contract was competitively procured with 44 proposals solicited, three offers were received, and award was made on June 29, 2000. The total contract amount is not to exceed $300,000,000, which includes the base period and four option years. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic Division, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N62470-00-D-0005).


No. 386-02
5 p.m. ET July 26, 2002
http://www.dod.mil/contracts/2002/c07262002_ct386-02.html

Brown & Root Services, A Division of Kellogg Brown & Root, Arlington, Va., is being awarded $9,700,000 for Task Order 0019 under a cost-reimbursement, indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity construction contract for construction of a 204 unit Detention Camp, Phase III, located on the windward side of the Naval Station, at the Radio Range area of U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Units will be of modular steel construction. Each unit measures approximately 6 feet 8 inches by 8 feet and includes a bed, a toilet, and a hand basin with running water. Work will be performed in Guantanamo Bay and is to be completed by October 2002. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The basic contract was competitively procured with 44 proposals solicited, three offers received and award made on June 29, 2000. The total contract amount is not to exceed $300,000,000, which includes the base period and four option years. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic Division, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N62470-00-D-0005).

[GetTheRightVote]

2. No wonder they will not close the prison, more lies for Halliburton.

Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo jail

:kick;

[jojo54]

3. He's just trying to pack away as much money that he can before

he gets impeached.

[libodem]

4. I wish it was the democrats that were ordering this up

then we'd hear the squawks about how stupid and unjust it is. Those partisan bastards would go crazy.

[babylonsister]

6. The DEMS SHOULD BE SCREAMING LONG AND LOUD

about this. I call b.s. :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Titus Moody]

14. Halliburton gets another contract

pssst! libodem. It WAS the Democrats who ordered this up. Who controlled the administration on June 29, 2000? Best we not go there.

[JanMichael]

15. We were building camps for Haitian refugees in Cuba in 1998.

Or 1999.

Either way we've broken the US-Cuba Treay that gave Guantanimo to the US for a lease of some $4,000 a year. That treaty could be broken by one of the two parties. Cuba has asked to break it, we have refused, they have refused the paltry lease.

[babylonsister]

5. This makes me so angry on so many levels. Aaaarrrrgggghhh!

[BeHereNow]

7. IMAGINE that!

See you guys there?
BHN

[Beaverhausen]

8. I'm shocked, SHOCKED!!!

not

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Ditto

[Initech]

9. Wow, Dick Cheney DEFENDING Halliburton? What a shocker!

And the corporate media says that Halliburton getting so much money has nothing to do with the fact that Dick Cheney was the former CEO of the company. I'm SHOCKED! :sarcasm:

[AuntiBush]

10. Why am I not shocked! :) Just wondering though, what is it really for?

[Jim Sagle]

12. It's a giant meatgrinder.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. Yes, and the sun will rise in the east tomorrow too.

[thereismore]

16. Wait a minute, what for? Need more capacity?

For whom? Domestic protesters? Political prisoners? Liberals? Who, Cheney, who?