Halliburton no-bid update: laws broken, Bush/Cheney knew.

[skids]

Probably this is already posted. But geesh, the boards are on FIRE today. :smoke:


Just remember folks, if dreams come true and Gannongate takes out "someone" in the WH. Then what about the other "someones"?

The GAO found that the Bush Administration violated procurement law when it issued various task orders under existing contracts. Of the eleven task orders examined, more than half were awarded outside the scope of their contracts, according to the report.

As an example of the inept procurement process, the GAO told how “a military review board approved a six-month renewal contract with Halliburton worth $587 million in just ten minutes and based on only six pages of documentation,” the report said.

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This email totally contradicts Cheney's nationally televised assertion that he had no involvement in Halliburton’s contracts whatsoever. It proved once and for all that Cheney and the White House had played a key role in making Cheney's ex-employer the number one war profiteer in Iraq.

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Finally, in October 2004, Bunnatine Greenhouse, a top official responsible for making sure the Army Corps of Engineers complies with contracting rules, came forward and revealed that top Pentagon officials showed improper favoritism to Halliburton.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb05/Pringle0217.htm

(EDIT: Doh! link! )

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1. Cheney is trying to take control of the middle class jobs base

by soliciting lower and mid-level war profiteers, this is where a lot of Bush's political support is the strongest.

Clearly the roots of FASCISM based on jobs.

Also, why don't we hear more about how SOCIALISTIC Bush's War of Choice in its preference for subsidizing, with tax payers' lives and $$$$, Haliburton et al jobs for "our" buddies and their friends = votes.

We live in scary times.

[earthboundmisfit]

2. Now let's see: breaking laws=CRIME, doesn't it?

And the GAO found that the administration broke the law, so the makes the administration CRIMINALS, doesn't it? So what happens now?

[patrice]

4. Bush Kills!

Choice on War!
"Pro-Life" (whatever that is) otherwise.

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3. Isn't Barbara Boxer going to have a news conference about this?

She said recently that there were some Halliburton memos that needed to be discussed (HA!) and clarified (HA! HA!) as to what Cheney said when.

[marew]

5. Is anyone surprised? n/t