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| 2004-10-28 |
| FBI Investigating Halliburton Contracts Oct 28, 4:43 PM (ET) By JOHN SOLOMON WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co. (HAL), seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices. The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year question of whether the Bush administration showed favoritism to Vice President Dick Cheney's former company. FBI agents this week sought permission to interview Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers' chief contracting officer who went public last weekend with allegations that her agency unfairly awarded a Halliburton subsidiary no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars in Iraq, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Asked about the documents, Greenhouse's lawyers said Thursday their client will cooperate but that she wants whistleblower protection from Pentagon retaliation. Here we go again ... NEXT! "I think it (the FBI interview request) underscores the seriousness of the misconduct, and it also demonstrates how courageous (Kerry Supporter, No Doubt) Ms. Greenhouse was for stepping forward," said Stephen Kohn, one of her attorneys. "The initiation of an FBI investigation into criminal misconduct will help restore public confidence," Kohn said. "The Army must aggressively protect Ms. Greenhouse from the retaliation she will encounter as a result of blowing the whistle on this misconduct." FBI agents also began collecting documents from Army offices in Texas and elsewhere in recent weeks to examine how and why Halliburton got the no-bid work in places like Iraq. "The Corps is absolutely cooperating with the FBI, and it has been an ongoing effort," said Army Corps spokeswoman Carol Sanders. "Our role is to cooperate. It's a public contract and public funds. We've been providing them information for quite a while." Wendy Hall, a Halliburton spokeswoman, said the company is cooperating with various investigations, but she dismissed the latest revelation as election politics. She noted Congress' auditing arm, the Government Accountability Office, found the company's no-bid work in Iraq was legal. "The old allegations have once again been recycled, this time one week before the election," Hall said. "The GAO said earlier this year that the contract was properly awarded because Halliburton was the only contractor that could do the work. "We look forward to the end of the election, because no matter who is elected president, Halliburton is proud to serve the troops just as we have for the past 60 years for both Democrat and Republican administrations," she said. Um, if the only countries in tyhe world who can perform certain functions are one French company and Haliburton, who would you trust? |
| Posted by:BigEd |
| #10 Sigh, this is so LLL. The Name Haliburton is "the ebil" to them. Not one of them even really knows the the company does. They are just "the ebil ones." Fact is Haliburton usally one or two months away from totally being bankrupt. In fact they have been, several times. As the story goes follow the money. Well they usually don't have a hell of a lot as far as corperations go. This isn't a story for the AP or any of the other MSM. It a story for Indymedia and the anarco-anti-globalist nutters woho seem to eat this sheite up. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-28 9:54:44 PM |
| #9 "they're outsourcing jobs to...uh...Americans" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-28 8:36:34 PM |
| #8 There is also the matter of Halliburton keeping about 90,000 Americans employed. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-10-28 8:17:41 PM |
| #7 "...the Government Accountability Office, found the company’s no-bid work in Iraq was legal." [She meant Government Accounting Office.] And any nitwit who can call up a stock chart can plainly see that Haliburton shares (Symbol: HAL) are worth no more now than when Bush first took office. And it's a publicly-traded company -- even Democrats can buy shares. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-10-28 8:10:08 PM |
| #6 Response to #2: It would appear that Ms. Robin can't keep a job for long. Do we have a repeatedly disgruntled employee issue? |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-10-28 7:55:41 PM |
| #5 Tri-sexuals (red and green striped - pisses off the Sneetches, I hear) from Mars? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-28 7:20:30 PM |
| #4 W's secret black homosexual love child |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-28 7:16:00 PM |
| #3 Oh, good grief... what's next, an expose on Enron? |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-10-28 7:13:38 PM |
| #2 hmmmm only one Greenhouse in the DC vicinity listed at www.opensecrets.org for '04 cycle: GREENHOUSE, ROBIN FALLS CHURCH,VA 22046 WATSON WYATT WORLDWIDE/ATTORNEY 4/26/2004 $2,000 Kerry, John GREENHOUSE, ROBIN L MS FALLS CHURCH,VA 22046 MCDERMOTT WILL/ATTORNEY 3/9/2004 $1,000 DNC Services Corp relative? Lesbian lover? LOL |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-28 7:12:34 PM |
| #1 Here we go! October Surprise #3... This is cheezy... AP joins CBS and NYT |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-10-28 6:44:59 PM |