Halliburton Loses Iraq Oil Project

[Killarney]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031231/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/halliburton&cid=542&ncid=716
Just weeks after Pentagon (news - web sites) auditors said Halliburton may have overcharged taxpayers to import oil to Iraq (news - web sites), the Defense Department is removing the Army Corps of Engineers from its role in supervising the program.

The Defense Energy Support Center, which buys fuel for the military throughout the world, will supervise the shipments and choose new contractors to replace Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s former company.

"We're taking over the mission," the center's spokeswoman, Lynette Ebberts, said Tuesday.

[NewJeffCT]

1. the media

The media will now make Bush out to be a hero for taking the contract out of Haliburton's hands - a new Teddy Roosevelt, just like they did when he denounced Haliburton for overcharging Iraq for gas & oil.

[PaDUer]

2. Just handed it down

to another name to make it look like Halliburton loses..same group!
Reassigned to another agency--NO change in overall control.

[yellowcanine]

3. barndoor closed, horse gone

or too little too late, just like ashcroft recusing himself from plume case.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

4. I guess they aren't so powerful after all

Good.

[KFC]

5. Interesting

And very nice to see.