Oil services firm paid Cheney as VP

[stevedeshazer]

REUTERS

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick
Cheney, a former CEO of Halliburton Co., has received
hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company since
taking office while asserting he has no financial interest in
the company, Senate Democrats said Tuesday.

The Democrats demanded to know why Cheney claimed to
have cut ties with the oil services company, involved in a
large no-bid contract for oil reconstruction work in Iraq,
when he was still receiving large deferred salary payments.

Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota
and Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said the revelations
reinforced the need for hearings about the no-bid contracts
Halliburton received from the Bush administration.

"The vice president needs to explain how he reconciles the
claim that he has 'no financial interest in Halliburton of any
kind' with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred
salary payments he receives from Halliburton," Daschle
said in a statement.

On NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, Cheney, who was
Halliburton's CEO from 1995 to 2000, said he had severed
all ties with the Houston-based company.

source: http://www.azstarnet.com/star/today/30917Ncheney.html

Cheney's going Spiro Agnew!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. BOOM!! Say good-night, Dick!

[Wickerman]

2. and good riddance to bad rubbish

[bagnana]

4. stock options, stock options

what about those!!! And what kind of "insurance policy" did he purchase, and are the premiums for that policy affected by Halliburton's fiscal shape? Eh?? The company wasn't looking too hot when he left, but now everything is just peachy for Halliburton. Inquiring minds want to know!!

[Catholic Sensation]

3. why would this remove him from power

If Enron couldn't get this son of a bitch outed, why would this?

[NNN0LHI]

5. Because the Republicans want him gone n/t

[stevedeshazer]

10. The Dems made hardly a peep

when Enron made a brief splash in the news months ago. Cheney managed to keep secret the sessions he held in early 2001 with the (literal) power brokers.

Now, he is naked and out in the open, because the press is turning against him.

My opinion. We shall see.

[BiggJawn]

6. And what did he do with his Halliburton Stock?

He was getting pressured to divest himself of his holdings when BAM! LIHOP happened and....and .....and.....What holdings in Halliburton? Dontcha know there's a WAHR on?

And we've never had confirmation that he did indeed divest.

[MostlyBlackCat2]

20. he didn't divest his stock

it's unexercised stock options. He hasn't chosen to use the option he has to purchase the stock. they're also saying that his income is back pay that "he already earned" which sounds like just as big a crock but still...

link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20030917/pl_washpost/a21820_2003sep16

[TacticalPeek]

22. But if you've "severed all ties" with a company,

you do not then receive payments from them, however you may describe them. You also do not own options to buy the company's stock if you have "severed all ties". Options may even be worse than actual stock, in potential financial conflict of interest.

[karlschneider]

23. Absolutely, especially when "insider trading" comes into play!

:eyes:

[Parche]

7. dickhead cheney

If we can get him on this scandal and the GAO energy files scandal
can we finally do it, is this the day, there is no time to wonder
no time to wait, we might finally have the chance to get the SOB

[mindfulNJ]

8. wow...shades of Spiro T....

:evilgrin: ...maybe his "boss" will follow Tricky Dick's example too!

[AWD]

9. Fall on that sword, Dickie!!!

And on your way, tell us about the put options you bought on American and United Airlines!

[movonne]

11. RUMMIE NEXT!!!!!!!!!

[rocktivity]

35. Holy shit--that would explain EVERYTHING!!!!

Originally posted by AWD:
Fall on that sword, Dickie!!! And on your way, tell us about the put options you bought on American and United Airlines!

Who would have the kind of power to remain anonymous for more than two years? One of the most politically powered men in America, of course! That makes so much sense it's scary!


rocknation

[BiggJawn]

12. Ohhhh...He doesn't have any "interest"...

He took out an INSURANCE POLICY so he gets his 'deffered compensation' even if Halliburton goes tits-up....

Isn't that like planning for General Electric to go tits-up in 4 years?

The only way Halliburton will fail on cheney's watch is if this scandal gets big, hairy legs that Laci Peterson or some damn shark can't knock out from under it, and they lose their "no-bid" Iraq contracts, and their value starts to fall, and their current CEO doesn't get out of Dodge fast enough like Kenny-Boy, and.....

IOW, when Hell freezes over...

Where's the STOCK, Dick?

[LeftIsBest]

14. Nothing will happen

Let me just say something honestly. The Dems will do nothing because it is a wast of time for them and they have lost all fighting spirit and the media is corporate and conservative so this story will be buried by the end of today. Sadly do not have enough real dems to even make a drop in the bucket. But I am hopeful and I do believe that Dean and others will try their best to restore some dignity to politics. The level of corruption in the white house is in my view unprecedented and in a perfect world Cheney would be going to prison as well as bush and rummy for war crimes.

[Enraged_Ape]

13. It's just amazing that this has been a DU topic for two years...

and Daschle and the librul media are just now, JUST NOW, calling him to the carpet for this.

[arcane1]

16. this happens all too often here at DU

Hell, we knew about the Niger forgeries BEFORE THE WAR EVEN GODDAMN STARTED!!!!

sigh...

[Nottingham]

15. Cheney gets Paid for Sex oh I mean is got a Haliburton Contracct

Isn't Millions and Billions lying in Bed with Haliburton in the Oval Office .....Worse than Clintons episode ...Remember they Impeached him for that


WHERES THE REPUBLICANS OUTRAGE at being SCREWED out of BILLIONS!

[MaineDem]

17. Is it just me?

Or does this seem like Dickie is about to say bye-bye to the administration? It may be health-related but I get the feeling all this is just laying the groundwork for his departure. THe more I read the more it seems like his days are numbered.

Oh I sure hope his boss goes next!

[stevedeshazer]

21. It's not just you, friend

Yesterday Lynne Cheney was on Hannity's hate radio program, laying out the "legacy" of the W administration.

His lies have been torn apart in the mainstream press and it's now come to light that he's being paid despite his lies about it on "Meet the Press" with the Tim Russert interview.

We are watching history in the making right now.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:xxUbldJ9nSMC:

Make no mistake: Richard Cheney is the heart of the beast. There is much more to come.

[BiggJawn]

31. Caught a story on NPR today about "Succession"

Seems that someone in this admensturation was questioning the constitutionality of Delay (Speaker of the House) being Nr. 3...

Why? Are the BFEE planning a shake-up soon?

[MaineDem]

32. Sorry, I'm missing your point

Maybe 'cause I'm on my first cup of tea.

Do they want to make DeLay Speaker (which is #2 in succession) or are they saying they want DeLay's position to be #3 after Hastert?

Third is succession right now I think is Ted Stevens, President Pro Tem of the Senate.

[TacticalPeek]

18. Somebody's probing Unka Dick.

This follows the firestorm that Rep Murtha rained down on the malAdministration at yesterday's Congressional press conference. Reporters kept asking 'Whose head should roll?', and Murtha would say somebody at the WH, let aWol pick'em. And when reporters pushed him toward Rumdum or Wolfman, he'd say not the Pentagon, the WH.

Now I think he may have been driving at Chaney!

Ah, how sweet the bliss when I heard Agnew had resigned.

[Nottingham]

19. Ya we have a Republican Congress So are they gonna Allow this

cause Aschcroft isn't doing anything

I want to see these Republicans look the people in the face and say Dick is a Great Vice President

The only way to get this man out is Impeachment or a Indictment of Criminal charges

can a criminal be a Vice President

[Sick of Bullshit]

24. I think ol' Snarlface is proving that yes, indeed,

a criminal can be Vice Pretzeldent!

[dusty64]

25. I think crashcart

is slinking off to live out the rest of his days in riches and leisure earned with the blood of hundreds of Americans and thousands of innocent Iraqis. He belongs in a prison cell or dragged through the streets as the traitor that he is. The chimp will now be free to pick someone with more appeal, but that will not be enough to save his wretched ass (provided the electronic "voting" problem is dealt with).

[InkAddict]

26. Spin or Truth? - VP Claims Medical Condition

was the etiology of his "altered state of consciousness." Umm...forgot his pills and impending circulatory collapse ensued under the bright lights, depriving his alien brain cells of oxygen.
BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED.

:evilgrin:

[BiggJawn]

30. Shouldn't have used a woman for his transplant donor...

Especially a woman who was an intern at the BoPrisons and had a thing for older men...

[maggrwaggr]

27. it's just odd that this is "coming out" now when it's been common ...

knowledge for a long time.

Just bizarre. Too little too late if you ask me, especially for the thousands of dead Iraqis and 300 American soldiers.

[UTUSN]

28. How Much Does One Individual NEED?

The dude's got one foot in the grave, clearly has no SPIRITUAL dimension, will not TAKE IT WITH HIM, so "what's it all about, ALFIE????"

Could somebody 'splain?

[reprobate]

29. If crashcart leaves "for health reasons", there'll be a power vaccum.

Cheney is the effective head of PNAC. If he goes, will that leave PNAC with no white house leadership, or will von Dumsfeld or wolfie take over?

If PNAC loses power in the white house, that will leave the administration rudderless, cause cheney is really the power behind the throne. In that case look for the admin to self destruct quickly.

But if Dummy becomes the white house PNAC controler what will that mean for our foriegn policy. I'm afraid that deplayment of nukes are not far from the minds of these foolish people.

Think about it. Captain Codpiece couldn't think his way out of a poker game. He sure hasn't been the one in charge. What will a change of power in the white house mean?

[Guaranteed]

33. LINK'S DEAD!

Did they write another version? Were they coerced into just pulling it?

[Guaranteed]

34. Here's Yahoo's article:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030917/ts_alt_afp/us_iraq_cheney_030917122029