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June 30, 2004
MORE HALLIBURTON FRAUD
Looks like yet another set of incidents of fraud committed by Halliburton -- you know, that company that Dick Cheney runs, and the one he arranged a sweetheart no-bid contract for? This time, more company insiders are blowing the whistle - and internal Pentagon documents back up the stories.
Pentagon documents obtained by NBC News support the whistleblowers' charges. In December auditors complained of Halliburton's "serious deficiencies," including "lack of cost control and cost consciousness." Some examples:
-- Purchase of hundreds of high-end SUVs and pickups, loaded with options like CD players, which "most KBR employees do not need."
-- "Duplication... and gold-plating" in purchases of computers and high-tech equipment.
-- Halliburton employees living in 5-star hotels.
You know, if this was a Democratic administration whose Vice-President engineered a sweetheart no-bid deal for his former company, which then proceeded to defraud the US taxpayers time and time again, Republicans and conservatives everywhere would be calling for impeachment hearings. But, that's the Republican way - hypocritically turning a blind eye to anything that happens on their own watch, while micro-investigating every minute thing Democrats do.
The most telling comment in the whole story - and the one that reveals the common link, in my mind, between Cheney's former business and the war that Bush/Cheney lied about and dragged us into, is this one:
DeYoung audited accounts for Halliburton's subsidiary KBR. She claims there was no effort to hold down costs because all costs were passed on directly to taxpayers. She repeatedly complained to superiors of waste and fraud. The company's response, according to deYoung was: "We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody's going to care."
Yep. Steal an election, start a war under false pretenses, and make the company a boatload of money in fraudulent charges all picked up by John and Jane Q. Taxpayer. What a prince of a human being Dick Cheney is. Not only should he be impeached, he should be imprisoned.
