"Halliburton given $30m to expand Guantanamo Bay"

[dbeach]

its small change to evil dickie but it could go up to
$500 milion..then its starting to smell like some cash.

Conflict of Interest.
illegal.
pay offs!

Na..day in a life in bushvakia.SOS!

'what me worry?"

"..as long as I was dictator.."



http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=647703
Halliburton given $30m to expand Guantanamo Bay
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
18 June 2005


A subsidiary of Halliburton, the oil services group once led by the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has won a $30m (£16m) contract to help build a new permanent prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Pentagon announcement, giving further details of the planned two-storey jail, complete with air conditioning and exercise and medical facilities, is a further sign that the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is determined to keep the jail in operation.

There are some 520 inmates from 40 countries at Guantanamo, some of them held there for more than three years. The new jail will be capable of holding 220 people. Under the contract with the US Naval Engineering Command, the work is to be finished by the end of July 2006. The final deal could be worth as much as $500m.

[Blaze Diem]

1. Will Halliburton build a Rummy/Rovian style crematorium to ...

dispose of the prisoner's bodies after they've been tortured to death?

Maybe Bush/Cheney and pals will end up there.

[kerrygoddess]

2. Posted here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1866063&mesg_id=1866063

Despite Calls for Closing GITMO, New Contract Awarded to Halliburton Subsidiary to Expand GITMO
18 June 2005



Democrats have recently called for closing down GITMO. A few days ago, it was reported that the White House was split over closing GITMO. Then Cheney stepped in said NO GO! Yesterday Alberto Gonzales defended keeping GITMO open, reiterating Cheney’s stance. Rumsfeld jumped in with his 2 cents supporting keeping GITMO open, too.

Now, it has been announced that a contract has been awarded to a Halliburton subsidiary, to expand GITMO…

A day after Democratic Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, both pivotal figures on the Judiciary Committee, suggested the U.S. prison for enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed, a contract to expand it was awarded.

The Navy announced Thursday that Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Halliburton, will receive $30 million to build “Detention Camp #6” and a security fence.

The contract outlines construction of a two-story, 220-person facility with day rooms, exercise areas, medical spaces and security control room.

MORE & LINKS - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=1103

[gulliver]

3. Now that is brazen. Every time I think they have bottomed out,...

... they find a new level to sink to. Cheney tells reporters that Gitmo is not going to be closed, and a few days later Halliburton (the company Cheney CEOed as it suckled from the government teat) lands a $30M contract to expand Gitmo. And the deal could ultimately be worth $500M.

[zann725]

5. How much of that, I wonder, comes from Social Security's "lock box"?

This is OUR tax money, folks! Why do we continue to allow them to spend OUR money wrecklessly...without our approval?! It's about time WE took THEIR hands out of our pockets.

This is what Class Actions are for.

[Donailin]

4. just when you think they can't be any more arrogant or drunk w/power

they do something so blatant and offensive to the sensibiliteis of the American people.

I swear, I will not be completely satisfied if this band of thugs isn't tried in the hague http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court