Cheney Shooting scandal hostess -- over $20 BILLION business w/ Bush admi

[HamdenRice]

<Second part of continuing research -- I have drastically increased my estimate of the value of contracts at stake>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=417384&mesg_id=417384

Katharine Armstrong, the hostess of Cheney's shooting party, in which Harry Whittington was shot in the face and upper body, is a lobbyist whose clients do business with the Bush administration worth over $20 billion per year in government contracts.

Her client Parsons Engineering has some $4 billion in contracts in Iraq, which include rehabilitating oil fields in northern Iraq, collecting Iraqi weapons and munitions for the Army Corp of Engineers, and providing security for its own employees.

From the descriptions of Parsons' work, one can hypothesize that coordinating that work with Halliburton, the company of which Dick Cheney was CEO before becoming Vice President, would be very important.

Presumably such matters can easily be worked out at a retreat such as the quail shooting retreat at the Armstrong Ranch, inasmuch as Katharine Armstrong's mother, Anne Armstrong, sat on the board of Halliburton at the time that it hired Dick Cheney as CEO, transforming the public servant into a multi millionaire.

Another Katharine Armstrong client is Lockheed Martin, the largest contractor of all to the federal government, with contracts totalling just over $20 billion per year. These contracts include the manufacture of military air craft, including the joint strike fighter which is expected to total over $200 billion in the years to come.

The real scandal at Armstrong Ranch was not the accidental shooting of Whittington, but the fact that Cheney was undoubtedly discussing business with his hostesses while enjoying the lavish hospitality of this elite facility owned by that same hostesses-lobbyist.