Army Whistleblower Draws Fire

[ellenfl]

have y'all been following this? i hope rep. waxman continues to support her.

WASHINGTON - In the world as Bunnatine Greenhouse sees it, people do the right thing. They stand up for the greater good and they speak up when things go wrong. She believes God has a purpose for each life and she prays every day for that purpose to be made evident. These days she is praying her heart out, because she is in a great deal of trouble.

Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse is the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting ("PARC" in the alphabet soup of military acronyms) in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Lest the title fool, she is responsible for awarding billions upon billions in taxpayers' money to private companies hired to resurrect war-torn
Iraq and to feed, clothe, shelter and do the laundry of American troops stationed there.

She has rained a mighty storm upon herself for standing up, before members of Congress and live on C-SPAN to proclaim things are just not right in this staggeringly profitable business.

She has asked many questions: Why is Halliburton — a giant Texas firm that holds more than 50 percent of all rebuilding efforts in Iraq — getting billions in contracts without competitive bidding? Do the durations of those contracts make sense? Have there been violations of federal laws regulating how the government can spend its money?

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[AnnieBW]

1. Army Corps of Engineers

Is the equivalent of flushing our tax money down the toilet. I worked for their Pittsburgh office one summer while in college, doing office work, etc. They were good people that really wanted to do the right thing. However, the rules were a JOKE. We had one contractor that would consistently bid lower than all of the other companies to do a job. They'd screw up the job, then default on the contract. This happened several times. Everybody in the office KNEW that this company was defrauding the government, but they were the low bidder, so their bid HAD to be accepted. Even though it cost the government twice as much money to deal with these losers.