Halliburton withheld financial information illegally

[kpete]

Halliburton's KBR unit hid contract info-US report
Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:59pm ET

WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The Pentagon's largest contractor in Iraq, Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root, routinely hid information about its work from the public by marking the data as proprietary when it wasn't, a U.S. government report said on Friday.

The company's actions were an abuse of federal contracting rules designed to protect truly proprietary information, said the report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

Information as fundamental as the daily number of meals being served to U.S. soldiers at a dining facility was labeled "not releasable to the public," the report said.


Under a multibillion-dollar contract awarded in December 2001 to KBR, the company has been feeding, housing and providing other services to U.S. troops worldwide. KBR's giant corporate parent company Halliburton formerly was headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.

more at:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-10-27T185858Z_01_N27357163_RTRIDST_0_IRAQ-USA-HALLIBURTON.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

[texpatriot2004]

1. K & R nm

[annabanana]

2. Thieves! Filthy lousy rotten thieves, the lot of them...

Throw the bums out!!

[progressoid]

3. Well, I'm sure our guvmint will get right on that...

[Bluebear]

4. kick