DoD IG backs off Iraq electrocutions report

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DoD IG backs off Iraq electrocutions report
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jul 31, 2008 6:14:13 EDT

An interim Pentagon investigation found no “credible evidence” that contractor KBR Inc., was aware of life-threatening conditions at the Baghdad building where a Green Beret was electrocuted in January while taking a shower.

At a Wednesday hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, however, the Pentagon’s acting inspector general backed off that report, which had been released to Congress this week, trumpeted by the committee’s Republican staff and reported Tuesday by the Associated Press.

“We have absolved no one,” said Gordon Heddell. “Let the record be clear on that.”

Heddell admitted that his investigators had not known of new evidence that the committee’s Democrats said demonstrated culpability on the part of KBR, which holds a multibillion dollar contract to provide a wide variety of services in Iraq, including building maintenance.

Committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., showed KBR’s Tom Bruni a copy of a KBR work order to install the ungrounded water pump, which, if the document is accurate, was the same ungrounded pump that caused the soldier’s death, Waxman said.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/military_electrical_kbr_iraq_073008w/



uhc comment: Read the article. As usual, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Naturally is obnoxious.