Not a nice company like Halliburton...(story)
A Halliburton subsidiary that has been subjected to numerous investigations for billions of dollars of contracts it has received for work in Iraq has systematically misused federal rules to withhold basic information on its practices from U.S. officials, a federal oversight agency said Friday.The contracts awarded to the company, KBR, formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root, are for housing, food, fuel and other necessities to U.S. troops and government officials in Iraq and for restoring that country's crucial oil infrastructure. The contracts total about $20 billion...."The arrogance is astounding on the part of KBR," said William Nash, a retired Army major general who is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an expert on post conflict zones. "It's time for Congress to step in, because this has just gone too far."
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History repeats itself.
This is an exact repeat of what Rep. Rumsfeld (R-IL) lashed out against during the Vietnam War. K&B (pre-Root), a subsidiary of Halliburton was awarded a no-bid $900million contract to build infrastructure. They did next to nothing and there was no oversight.
Why isn't Rumsfeld pissed now?
Lather, rinse, repeat...
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