They were doing the Halliburton deal before the order to Northern Command

[Gloria]

to start their operations. Links courtesy a Clark list...

I know that as of 3:14 pm ET on Wednesday, August 31, Northern Command was still waitin for orders. This from Salon.com, reporting on what Adm. Timothy Keating said on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Finding this info online confirmed what I thought I had seen, several days before we started looking for timeline info.

So, at 3:14 pm Keating has no orders....but by 8:30 pm on 9/1 the Houston Chronicle is reporting on the Halliburton contract. You can't tell me that the wheels were turning at 3:14 pm on 8/31 or earlier to process this paperwork....after all, you know how long it took for them to be processing paperwork on anything else related to the disaster. (sarcasm). Seriously, they had to be on this nearly right away...

When Cheney was missing, I posted that I bet he was working on this sort of thing...and I think we would be right to assume it....Furthermore, it looks like it was set up to happen AUTOMATICALLY....under an open-ended contract (first story)


HalliburtonWatch.org
Halliburton gets Katrina contract, hires former FEMA director
1 Sept. 2005

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- The US Navy asked
Halliburton to repair naval facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina,
the Houston Chronicle reported today. The work was assigned to
Halliburton's KBR subsidiary under the Navy's $500 million CONCAP
contract awarded to KBR in 2001 and renewed in 2004. The repairs
will take place in Louisiana and Mississippi.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/hurricane_katrina.html

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Houston Chronicle
Sept. 1, 2005, 8:30PM
AROUND THE REGION
CONSTRUCTION

Halliburton hired for storm cleanup

The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric
power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in
Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at
other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685



Below is the Salon.com info:


found it: Northern Command waiting for Orders!! Adm. Keating on CNN


I actually saw this and finally found it at the Salon.com War Room!!!!
As of 3:14 PM on August 31 (Wed) Northern Commmand was still waiting for orders!!!!! from the Gov of LA and BUSH.

Which gets us into that whole mess of what did Blanco request...saw a Dem rep on Nightline last night getting crapped on by Koppel about how someone "didn't ask." This Congressman (a man, starts with an M?) said the proper procedures had been followed...he was thoroughly exasperated...


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Bush is back

The cable networks have just carried a live feed of Air Force One landing at Andrews Air Force Base. The president strode smartly down the steps of plane, saluting a couple of military officers with one hand while holding his Scottish terrier in the other.
The commander in chief is back in command, and not a minute too soon. The mayor of New Orleans just said that the death toll in his city is "minimum, hundreds," and "mostly likely, thousands." He said that there are a "significant number of dead bodies in the water," and that New Orleans will not be "functional" for a matter of months.
What will the president do now that he's back in Washington? He'll give a televised speech from the White House at 5 p.m., and he may contemplate sending active-duty U.S. soldiers to New Orleans to help stop looting there. Appearing on CNN, Adm. Timothy Keating, the chief of the U.S. Northern Command, said he's awaiting a request from the governor of Louisiana and an order from the president of the United States.

[Gloria]

1. Shameless kick...

[applegrove]

2. I thought someone said Halliburton already had a standing order

to be involved in any disaster hurricane.

Shouldn't there be a law that prevents a company that creats "externalities on third parties" (global warming) from getting contracts to fix it?

[Gloria]

3. Yes, they did have a standing order, signed in Dec. 2004

it's in my post