Helping Halliburton Hide
Helping Halliburton Hide
In 2004, the UN’s International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) — the international group that oversees the use of Iraqi money on Iraqi reconstruction — wanted to know more about Halliburton. Specifically, they wanted to conduct an audit of Halliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown & Root’s single-source, oh-so-lucrative Iraq contract, $1.6 billion of which came straight from Iraqi coffers. After much foot dragging, the White House finally complied, sending the IAMB heavily redacted versions of audits the Pentagon’s Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) had conducted into Halliburton’s use of the money.
Blacked out of the redacted report was the fact that Halliburton may have bilked the U.S. military out of about $100 million. Also blacked out were statements critical of KBR like “KBR was unable to reconcile the proposed costs to its accounting records” and “KBR did not always provide accurate information.”
Here’s where it gets really interesting. Wondering why the extensive redactions blocked all of the negative findings, the crack researchers in Rep. Henry Waxman’s office looked into the matter. It turns out the White House gave Halliburton a copy of the negative audit and let the company scrub out all of the negative stuff itself before it was sent to the UN group. A letter from KBR dated 9/28/04 to the Army Corps of Engineers states “we have redacted the statements of DCAA that we believe are factually incorrect or misleading and could be used by a competitor to damage KBR’s ability to win and negotiate new work.”
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March 15th, 2005 at 10:14 pmAnd to top it off,Halliburton supports governments who support terrorism (Iran)- which makes them supporters of terrorism.
Nah – Halliburton is just unfairly picked on,right?
March 15th, 2005 at 10:19 pmMy guess is that the date of the KBR letter should be 2004, not 2005.
March 15th, 2005 at 11:13 pmI hate this administration. They are evil. They must be evil. Everything they do or try to do is for big company profits and goes against everything the concepts of progressive or “liberal” stands for. But what do we do ? AHHHHHHHHHH!!!
March 15th, 2005 at 11:41 pmI can’t – for the life of me – figure out why Americans haven’t taken up arms and begin the process of revolution. I guess the Democractic party is just a hidden right-wing sleeper.
It goes to show how lazy Americans are. I’m betting on Islam to win.
March 16th, 2005 at 10:36 amTo all readers who are horrified at the collusion described in this article– Don’t just comment on it here, please send a comment and forward the article to your newspaper. This article contains hard evidence of collusion and deception between Haliburton and the white house. A direct link back to the white house is news and Newspapers do respond to their readers.
This story will not appear in the main stream media unless readers like yourself forward it to major media outlets. It’s not sexy work, but if enough people send this to anewspaper, it will get some ink.
March 16th, 2005 at 10:57 amI read sometime in bushie’s first 4 years that the DoD cannot finish the audit of its books because they are too big. bushie said it was okay – their department would be exempt. Can you imagine how much money they have been stealing when they are sure no one is looking at the books! Hell-i-burtin is only the ice tip.
March 16th, 2005 at 11:16 amIs anyone going to hold this admins feet to the fire? Or are the republicans going to look the other way.
March 16th, 2005 at 11:21 amI have always thought that God was merciful that he created a bottom in Hell so Satan could stop falling. The same can not be said of the Bush Administration. There greed is bottomless, their arrogance and corruption are plunging us into a bottomless pit of malfeasance. How long before they self destruct? Please, God, not long.
March 16th, 2005 at 11:43 amI wonder what the White House cut was. You think 10%? And the missing billions that no one will investigate — how much of that went into their personal accounts?
March 16th, 2005 at 11:44 amsomeone like michael moore needs to make a documentary showing americans all the sneaky, shady, secret dealings of this administration. i bet if a dem ever gets inside the books, that we are way way more in debt than we even know.
March 16th, 2005 at 12:00 pmTo Nick (4):
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March 16th, 2005 at 12:00 pmWriting you local newspapers is an excellent idea. Also, freewayblogger.com seems to be an effective way to spark people’s interest.
March 16th, 2005 at 12:37 pmCheney’s Theme
I’m a Halliburton Dandy,
Halliburton do or die,
I realize profits from my Uncle Sam,
On contracts I once privatized.
Our deal’s a cost-plus no-bid sweetheart,
Overcharging is our ploy.
Halliburton feeds our troops with putrid green baloney,
I am that Halliburton boy!
Other Parodies at:
http://keithblevins.com/parodies.html
March 16th, 2005 at 2:44 pmI think the time has come to emulate our Ukranian brethren and organize a continuing vigil in the sreets, plus a “Five Million Progressive March” for Labor Day.
March 16th, 2005 at 3:51 pmUnbelievable what this WH is willing to do for it’s cronies.
http://www.jabberwonk.com
March 16th, 2005 at 8:14 pmAs long as the Republican whores in Congress roll over for Pres. Shrub, the fiasco will continue. The voters are getting exactly what they deserve!
March 16th, 2005 at 8:30 pm“I can’t – for the life of me – figure out why Americans haven’t taken up arms and begin the process of revolution. I guess the Democractic party is just a hidden right-wing sleeper.”
I ask myself that same question everyday…what is stoping these Americans from a full scale revolt in the streets? WHat is stopping then from stopping these fascists.
March 17th, 2005 at 12:45 amIs anyone really that surprised? I mean, it’s become pretty damned obvious, hasn’t it? Halliburton awarded Iraq war contracts (With the Iraq war started by Cheney, former Halliburton top dog), the bush administration spinning it’s ILLEGAL fabricated news/propaganda with OUR tax dollars at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars and then spoon feeding it back to us, the illegal election of Bush the FIRST time, (with the supreme court republicans toeing the line) then the Diebold voting machine scandal, etc, etc, etc. This administration is making it very obvious, no wait, has MADE it very obvious they are going to do whatever the hell they want. The dark ages are here and now, my friends. It’s only gonna get worse…
March 17th, 2005 at 12:28 pmI need a leader to let me know where to meet and when! I am not the charismatic presence to begin this revolution, but I am participating in every event I can locally. Writing in often to the editorial section of our local paper and talking ad nauseum about this to everyone. This must be stopped NOW!
March 17th, 2005 at 3:08 pmFolks, hand ringing and wishful thinking is not helping us. Non-violent action NOW! Violenece will not work: these bastards know how to deal with violent actions; after all, it is the way the deal with problems.
March 17th, 2005 at 3:55 pmWe need a peacefull revolution, manned by spiritual warriors, ready to take it to them, just like the rest of the world is! We must get organized! It is a moral imperative to stop these fascist pricks NOW!
March 17th, 2005 at 5:53 pmthe truth is we can sit here and type away or we can get out and do something. Afraid we will have to take it to the street like in the 60’s, we have to fight again to stop a war, fight for civil rights, voting rights and our constitution. Protests draw attention more than anything..look at Lebanon. Bush wouldn’t like for the rest of the world to that here. May 1 big protest in DC scheduled.
March 17th, 2005 at 10:53 pmIsn’t there a way to make the decent, conservative folks who vote for these guys realize how badly they’re being scammed? I certainly don’t like to be made out to be a fool, and I can’t imagine they’d like it either. If we could find just one example that would make them take notice and start asking hard questions of these rip-off artists…
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