Halliburton contracts worth two billion dollars (Teapot Dome)

[grytpype]

link

Prediction: it's the Halliburton contracts that will finally bring the Adminstration down. It is so obviously corrupt and blatent, it's worse than Teapot Dome, by a large measure.

Info on Teapot Dome:
http://www.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/teapot.html

Let that be the new meme! TEAPOT DOME!

(Don't forget to rate the article a 5!)

[grytpype]

1. Say it with me.

Cheney is putting money into his own pocket.

Cheney is putting money into his own pocket.

Cheney is putting money into his own pocket.

Cheney is putting money into his own pocket.

Cheney is putting money into his own pocket.

Cheney is putting money into his own pocket.

[ameriphile]

5. I don't know what you're trying to say here

but I'm starting to think that Cheney is putting money into his own pocket.

[Mokito]

14. Who is putting what in whose what?

[grytpype]

2. And remember all those little trips he would take to the CIA...

... he made very clear the answer he wanted from the intelligence services. Remember the Sixteen Little Words scandal? That was Cheney.

[shanti]

3. i know what you're saying

halliburton is royally screwing the american public, with impunity. we HAVE to oust this wandering band of thieves!!!!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. And 85 Billion more to go!

Do the math.

[PartyPooper]

6. Do Dick Cheney and his evil ilk really believe they're going to live

forever? How on earth could they possibly spend all of the money they're making...or, have stashed away in offshore bank accounts? Or, do they think they can take their ill-gotten wealth to the grave?

Maybe, it's a money / power thing. With one or the other you have both...'power corrupts absolutely'.

:evilfrown:

[grasswire]

7. they can't lose even if they bankrupt America

...because the money they and their predatory cronies are making is a king's ransom and....if they bankrupt America, there will be no money for the social programs they hate.

They must be stopped now. We must peel Republicans away.

[drummerjohn]

18. I think....

Springsteen said it best in his song "Badlands"

"Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And the king ain't satisfied
'till he rules everything"

TROOF!!!

[saigon68]

21. Not if he keeps buying new pacemakers

n/t

[grytpype]

8. And don't forget Cheney was pushing pretty farking hard for this war!

And don't forget Cheney was pushing pretty farking hard for this war!

He said the troops would be greeted as liberators!

He said we were risking a mushroom cloud (only he and Condi Rice used those terms)

He hung around the CIA alot to pressure them into supporting the invasion!

VERY BUSY MR. CHENEY!

[leesa]

19. And Lord knows what he's doing down in the cave he lives in...

Probably something to do with the trillion or so missing from the DOD.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

9. Teapot revisited indeed...

This is obvious. What amazes me is that Congress, the press and the public have just accepted this as a fact of life.
Where is the outrage!?!
Where is the Congressional investigation!?!
Why isn't this on the front page of every major American newpaper!?!
Instead TV journalists (?) hails Bush as the Second Coming of Christ. Who is paying their salaries?
No wonder I don't watch TV anymore.

[PartyPooper]

10. Welcome to DU, BlackVelvetElvis!

You sound like you're 'all shook up'. :D
Seriously, we're glad you're here!

:toast:

[Jawja]

15. If Clinton was doing this

image the press coverage and the outrage.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi BlackVelvetElvis!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[grytpype]

11. 18 U.S.C. 208 - Acts affecting a personal financial interest

(a) Except as permitted by subsection (b) hereof, whoever, being
an officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States
Government, or of any independent agency of the United States, a
Federal Reserve bank director, officer, or employee, or an officer
or employee of the District of Columbia, including a special
Government employee, participates personally and substantially as a
Government officer or employee, through decision, approval,
disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice,
investigation, or otherwise, in a judicial or other proceeding,
application, request for a ruling or other determination, contract,
claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular
matter in which, to his knowledge, he, his spouse, minor child,
general partner, organization in which he is serving as officer,
director, trustee, general partner or employee, or any person or
organization with whom he is negotiating or has any arrangement
concerning prospective employment, has a financial interest -
Shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 216 of
this title.

There are exceptions in subsection (b), but before getting to them, I wonder whether 208(a) is satisfied by Cheney's involvment in the war AND the reconstruction.

Cheney is an officer of the executive branch. He did personally substantively participate as vice-president in promotion of the war. He did have a financial interest because his company Haliburton would would get billions in contracts.

Sounds like a 208(a) violation.

[T Bone]

12. Cheney Puts US Treasury Money in his Pocket 208a Violation

Cheney Puts US Treasury Money in his Pocket

208a Violation?

Why don't we all write our Congress people.
We could say we are certain Ashcroft will never investigate it so we think they should.

Maybe they are all just waiting for us to ask them about this specifically, and since we haven't yet, they can't say they are representing their constituents interests until we do...

So let's write and ask. Write your Senators and Congress man/woman.

Ask them nicely to look into it, because we are just like wondering. The way we read that law.

We could even paste that into our letter, emails and faxes.
Just do it. Just ask them.

[teryang]

13. He should be indicted

...but that isn't likely. Perhaps after regime change.

He should be impeached. That isn't likely either.

[disgruntella]

16. Slightly off topic, but

I bought a roll of "Halloween Paper Towels" (with print of bats, ghosts, etc.) yesterday and set it on my kitchen counter.

When I walked past it this morning (before coffee) I glanced at it and thought it said "HALLIBURTON Paper Towels."

:crazy:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

17. Teapot Dick

might be a good name for this scandal.