Where were all the bean counting republican deficit hawks when...

[Hubert Flottz]

Halliburton serves dirty food to the troops
Dec. 13, 2003

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 2003 (Summary of Agency France Press Article) - The Department of Defense repeatedly warned Halliburton's subsidiary, KBR, that its food and the kitchens where it is prepared are "dirty," NBC News reported. A Pentagon report found that KBR's promises to clean up its food and kitchens "have not been followed through." The report found that KBR kitchens contain "blood all over the floor," "dirty pans," "dirty grills," "dirty salad bars" and "rotting meats ... read more

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/dirty_kitchens.html

Halliburton faces more accusations
Feb. 12, 2004
By Lisa Sanders, CBS.MarketWatch.com

Former workers allege U.S. was overcharged routinely

DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Halliburton, under fire already for its work in the Middle East, is facing fresh charges from two former employees who allege that the company routinely over billed the U.S. government.

In a letter to a Pentagon agency that's reviewing Halliburton's (HAL: news, chart, profile) work, Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman and John Dingell said the whistle blowers' allegations range from the company's cavalier attitude about prices to its anti-competitive business practices.

Halliburton was not immediately available for comment...Read More

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/whistleblower_article.html

INTERVIEW-Halliburton falling short in Iraq-Pentagon
February 19, 2004
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis

BAGHDAD, Feb 19 (Summary of Reuters Article) - A senior Pentagon official said Halliburton is falling short in its commitments to supply the troops in Iraq and rebuild the country's oil infrastructure. "There is no doubt that more needs to be done. We have to make sure that we can provide the services as quickly as they are needed," Dov Zakheim, under secretary of defense, told Reuters. Halliburton's KBR unit is the biggest contractor for the U.S. military in Iraq with more than $8 billion in deals covering everything from doing laundry, building bases and providing meals to repairing oil infrastructure...read more

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/gen_critical_interview.html

Halliburton's Rising Cost for Bush
FEBRUARY 20, 2004
Halliburton's Rising Cost for Bush

The ever-growing list of charges swirling around Cheney's former company could repel key swing voters in a tight election

FEBRUARY 20, 2004 (BusinessWeek Online) -- In a normal political season, President George W. Bush could tough out the string of embarrassing charges of war profiteering and bribes emanating from Halliburton (HAL), where Vice-President Dick Cheney used to hang his hat. But as Democrats more or less unite behind Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), they're getting the better of Bush on issues ranging from missing Iraqi weapons to missing American jobs. With the 2004 election looking to be as tight as 2000's cliffhanger, the drip-drip-drip of Halliburton charges threatens to erode one of the President's greatest strengths: Character and credibility.

Asked whether Bush is a leader they can trust, a stunning 61% of independent voters said they had "doubts and reservations" in a Feb. 5-6 CNN-Time poll. In a sharply polarized electorate, swing voters could hold the keys to the White House -- and Halliburton "could have enough appeal as a wedge issue to swing a few votes," says independent pollster John Zogby.

A CLOUD OF DOUBTS. Questions about Halliburton are piling up rapidly -- and they won't go away soon. The Pentagon Inspector General has asked the Defense Criminal Investigative Service to probe allegations by Representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.) that the outfit inflated the price of fuel it supplied in war-torn Iraq. Read More

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/political_cost.html

Halliburton criminal probe opened
Feb. 24, 2004
By CBS MarketWatch

DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- The Pentagon has opened a criminal probe of Halliburton after auditors found that a subsidiary of the oil-service giant might have overcharged for gasoline delivered to Iraq via a Kuwaiti subcontractor.

A Pentagon spokesperson said Tuesday the Defense Criminal Investigative Service of the Inspector General's office launched a criminal investigation of Halliburton unit Kellogg, Brown & Root on Jan. 29.

Defense Department auditors found the unit may have overcharged as much as $61 million for fuel shipped into Iraq from Kuwait. The subcontractor is Altanmia Commercial Marketing Co.

Houston-based Halliburton (HAL: news, chart, profile) has maintained that it delivered fuel to Iraq at the best possible price and that the Army Corps of Engineers approved the shipments. Halliburton was formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. Read More

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/criminal_probe_opened.html


Defense audit finds contract issues
March 11, 2004
By Lisa Sanders, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:20 PM ET March 11, 2004

DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Halliburton closed 6 percent lower Thursday after the Pentagon's comptroller said an audit of the company's work in Iraq found problems with the way costs are estimated.

Speaking to the House Government Reform Committee, Comptroller Dov Zakheim said the Defense Contract Audit Agency found "significant deficiencies in KBR's estimating practices related to the award of subcontract costs." Kellogg, Brown & Root, known as KBR, is Halliburton's (HAL: news, chart, profile) engineering and construction arm and is responsible for the work in the Middle East.

He said those problems provided the impetus for the DCAA review, which is investigating whether KBR overcharged the U.S. government for gasoline delivered into Iraq. The agency found possible overpricing in the amount of $61 million, he said.
Read More

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/defense_audit.html

U.S. General Criticizes Halliburton
March 15, 2004
Concern Over Base Building
Is Army's First Open Knock
Of Conduct in Iraq, Kuwait

By GREG JAFFE and NEIL KING JR.
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON (Summary of Wall Street Journal Article) -- The highest ranking U.S. military official in Iraq criticized Halliburton for stumbling in its contracts to build new bases in the war torn country. The criticisms of Halliburton were written by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez in a letter to senior Army officers. It is the Army's first public criticism of Halliburton's conduct in Iraq and Kuwait. Until now, the Army had been satisfied with Halliburton's performance. The letter was not made available to the public, but senior officers told the Wall Street Journal about its contents. Halliburton's KBR unit is helping the Army consolidate its bases into fewer, but larger, bases in Iraq. In Baghdad, the military is reducing the number of bases from 26 to as few as six. But Gen. Sanchez is disappointed because KBR has failed to say when the new bases will be ready for the new troops. He also said KBR's failures have made troop rotations more difficult. Gen. Sanchez's letter also criticized KBR for late payments to food subcontractors. At least one subcontractor threatened to withhold food service to 2,000 soldiers in Iraq, which led the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate the complaints of KBR subcontractors. Read More

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/general_critical.html

US stays away from Kuwait's Iraq fuel probe-papers
Thursday April 15, 9:42 am ET

KUWAIT, April 15, 2004 (Summary of Reuters Article) - The Kuwaiti government is investigating a contract in which Halliburton and its subcontractor may have illegally overcharged the U.S. taxpayer for oil and gas imported into Kuwait. But Kuwait announced it wants to delay submitting a final report on the investigation because the U.S. army declined to testify. "We are disappointed as the Americans are a key ally ... We had hoped for cooperation, especially since this case is of interest to both countries,...read more

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/army_testify_kuwait.html

Halliburton's role in Iraq -- from meals to oil
Monday April 12, 2004
By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - Texas company Halliburton, which has seven workers missing in Iraq, is the U.S. military's biggest contractor there, responsibe for everything from preparing meals for U.S. troops to repairing Iraq's oil infrastructure.

The human price has been steep. The company says about 30 of its staff and sub-contractors for subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root have been killed in Iraq, many of them doing work the military used to do itself but now outsources. Read More

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/meals_to_oil.html

So I could go on and on but you can go look for yourself...

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/home.html

And then there's Blackwater furnishing private soldiers by the hundred at many times the cost of a regular American service man or woman.

Where were those bean counting Deficit Hawks like Boinger Mitch and Cantor all that time? They were voting yea on EVERYTHING Bush put under their noses for eight long years without one iota of decent. Lined up like ducks in a little row helping W SPEND this country into the mess it's in today. That's where the Deficit Hawks were. And now they are still playing politics, while the people in America do without.

Obama needs to forget about the GOP doing anything, but more damage.

[rurallib]

1. Looks to me like FEMA could make good use of that money

hand it over, Halliburton

[Lasher]

2. They were busy at the time passing every spending & tax cut bill that Junior ever asked for.

With no accompanying spending cuts or revenue increases to offset the expenditures.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. That they were my friend.

And they need to be reminded daily!

[Jack Rabbit]

4. IOKIYAR

Rules are for Democrats and black people.

[unblock]

6. don't black republicans get to break the rules, too?

as far as republicans are concerned, "democrats" and "black people" is esseentially redundant.

[unblock]

5. why would they fight their own side?

republicans are at war, and it's all about which side you're on.

whatever republicans are doing is fine.
whatever democrats and other enemies of republicans are doing is evil.

period.

deficits are peachy when reagan or shrub generate them, horrendous when obama or carter generate them, and clinton's surplus was either worthless or somehow a republican accomplishment depending on which weapon they pick on that day.

torture is evil when done by some dictator whose country republicans want to steal oil from, but perfectly fine if republicans are doing it.

and so on, down to matters of protocol, politicking, campaigning, fund-raising, whatever.

they have NO principles beyond money (if that's a principle).
they only have loyalty. all their alleged "hypocrisy" makes perfect sense if you recognize that they're at war.

[DefenseLawyer]

7. 9/11 changed everything

except when it didn't.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Finished turning America into a police state...

Finished off "Democracy" and replaced it with Kleptofascism.

[GeorgeGist]

8. Counting the profits, no doubt.

[Enthusiast]

10. "Obama needs to forget about the GOP doing anything, but more damage."

No shit.