Friday, April 20, 2007

[fraud and abuse] former halliburton unit on the ropes

A small excerpt [unabridged] from the congressional report:

U.S. lawmakers on Thursday railed against defense contractor KBR Inc. for a string of fraud and contract abuses on a multibillion-dollar contract that provides food and shelter to U.S. troops in Iraq.

"I think profiteering during wartime is inexcusable," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "We've got a very serious problem. This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we have ever seen in this country."

KBR is currently the Army's sole contractor for providing food and shelter to the military in Iraq and Afghanistan under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or Logcap. More than $20 billion has awarded by the Pentagon over the last five years for the services contract.

It goes on and on. Dick Cheney did well to disassociate hmself from the conglomerate, on the surface that is. The real head of the US government has other fish to fry these days.

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2 comments:

  1. Colin CampbellFriday 20 April 2007 at 09:40:00 GMT+1

    I thought this was the reason for the war in the first place, securing the bottom line for the military industrial complex and securing future oil reserves. Seems they were just a little tooo greedy for the normally rubber stamp at the time of war congress. Uh Oh The Democrats got to take over the soap box.

    The reality is that it is blah blah blah and who is going to have a feather rapped over their knuckles. Sick but just business as usual.

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  2. Winfred MannFriday 20 April 2007 at 13:50:00 GMT+1

    Maybe it's about time people realized that radical Islam and rouge states are a threat to the stability of the world.

    WM

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