Halliburton bribes are huge and Gitmo was contracted during Cheney

[cyberpj]

2 articles here:

Halliburton bribes:'most significant file of corruption' says US official

20 June 2004
WASHINGTON, June 20 (HalliburtonWatch.org) --
A U.S. Justice Department official held "lengthy" meetings with French authorities in Paris last week to discuss a potentially explosive bribery investigation involving Halliburton, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported today.

The alleged bribes were paid by a consortium of four companies, which includes Halliburton's KBR subsidiary, to officials of the Nigerian government for the purpose of winning a multibillion dollar construction contract. The consortium, known as "TSKJ," ultimately won the contract.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's CEO when many of the alleged bribes were paid. He currently has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Bribing foreign officials is a criminal offense under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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http://halliburtonwatch.org/news/meeting.html

And just today, there's this from RawStory:

Contract that spawned Gitmo awarded to Halliburton during Cheney tenure
John Byrne
Experts say firm may have built secret camps

A contract awarded to a Halliburton subsidiary in June 2000 while Vice President Dick Cheney was still at the helm of the firm spawned the detention centers at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, RAW STORY has discovered.

The contract, which allocated funds for “emergency construction capabilities” at “worldwide locations,” authorized the Defense Department to award Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root any number of specific naval construction deals abroad.

Pegged at an “estimated maximum” of $75 million in 2000, the deal mushroomed to $136 million by 2004. Some $58 million was dedicated to detention centers at Guantanamo Bay alone, with another $30 million in a second contract.

Specific contracts for the Guantanamo facilities were not inked until February of 2002. Cheney served as chief executive of the company from 1995 until July 2000, leaving shortly thereafter to join the Bush campaign.

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In 2002, the Pentagon said that additional options might reach $300 million. Security experts believe the Bush Administration may have carved out funding from the original agreement to build other secret detention facilities sprinkled across the globe.

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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Contract_that_spawned_Guantanamo_prisons_awarded_to_Halliburton_during_Cheneys_tenur_0621.html

[quaoar]

1. That first story

is from last year.

[cyberpj]

4. Hmmm... the home page says 2005.

I wonder which is correct.
Still, that doesn't make it less true. And another quote says:
"The U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been investigating the matter for over a year."

Another case of the corrupt investigating itself. Bringing it into public attention can't hurt, can it?

Why doesn't someone legislate that such investigations must be conducted by independent parties?

[cyberpj]

12. Just found the French article - IT'S 2005. I told the Halliburton site.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20050620.FIG0246.html?203216

[cyberpj]

13. kick it for the evening.

[Rex]

2. They planned a lot of this back when Clinton was prez.

No surprise here.

[Pockets]

3. Interesting to me

Someone like me who isn't a Cheney expert, I found this interesting.

Legally, they say he isn't war profitteering because Halliburton profits were made before the war, but it still looks exactly like the intelligent planning of a corporate fat cat. And the newly released information supports that idea.

[cyberpj]

5. Also, I'm wondering - doesn't he still own stock options? That would

mean the profits accumulated all during the war and for however long after would still apply to him.

I might remember something about his selling off stock but I'll be damned if I'd believe that.

[Disturbed]

6. This is one more item in the case of Impeachment of ..

Cheney. Instead of trying to impeach shrub first, Cheney should be impeached then shrub, Rumdumb, Rice. Then indicte Wolfowitz and Tenet.

The case for Rumdumb and Tenet has already been made by Rumdumb's own public admissions. Also, Tenet lied under oath. Tenet was allowed to resign and given the Freedom Medal in exchange for the RWingers in Congress not bringing charges against him. Tenet allowed Cheney to bring intell from the CIA to the OSP where it was fixed to frame the false intell that Powell spewed at the UN. Powell should be charge, as well.


Rumsfailed Admitted to Violating Geneva Convention

Rumsfailed admitted in public on TV that when CIA Director Tenet requested that an Iraqi prisoner be sent to a secret Afghan/US Prison that Rumsfailed did so. After four months a DOD Attorney stated that this was an illegal act. Rumsfailed then ordered that this prisoner be sent back to Abu Graihib but the prisoner was purposefully not listed at that location, also an illegal act. Rumsfeld also admitted to signing orders for tougher interogation methods which violated the Geneva Conventions.

Rumfailed has commited at least three violations of the Geneva Convention thereby also violations of The Constitution of the USA. Recently it has been found out that even more detainees were "ghost detainees". The fact that Rumsfailed and Tenet have not been charged speaks volumes. If Congress wishes to garner any respect they should move forward with Rep. Rangle's Impeachment Declaration of Rumsfailed and also proscecute Ex. CIA Tenet.


Does the US, Govt., Congress, and the Justice Dept no longer abide by the Geneva Convention or the Constitution of the USA?

[LightningFlash]

8. A very good case of abuses and one that can be acted upon...

This really, really needs to find itself into the right hands of the investigation team and begin pulling back the whitewash.

[Sanity Claws]

7. Bribes before he took office

Spiro Agnew was forced to leave as VP over kickbacks he received while Governor. He later pleaded nolo contendre. Right? Why can't we hope that this bribery scandal brings down Dickie a la Spiro?

[cthrumatrix]

9. I hope somebody is interested in these files for the bush/cheney trials

[cyberpj]

10. A Chronology of Key Events in the Unfolding Bribery Scandal

Starts in 1988:

http://halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/nigeria_timeline.html

[Snotcicles]

11. Oh Mr. Conyerrrrs, we have more work for you.

To bad we can't rely on anyone else.