Cheney: Halliburton link 'cheap shot'

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON (CNN)

Aide says Cheney no longer has a financial stake in the company but two top Democrats say otherwise.

Vice President Dick Cheney's office Tuesday dismissed as "a political cheap shot" new Democratic questions about his financial stake in the energy services company Halliburton, which has received lucrative contracts in post-war Iraq.

His comment came after two Democratic senators suggested Cheney gave misleading answers when he said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that: "I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years."

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle issued a statement Tuesday saying Cheney has "to clarify this discrepancy of no financial interest." ---

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Thanks for keeping it in the headlines Dickless!

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. Doesn't Dick get a $1 million annual pension?

I remember reading about this last year. Anyone have a link?

[onehandle]

9. I thought that too....

And who cares if he isn't getting a dime. His past tens of millions earned were a pre-payment for his VP favors.

What's to stop him from working for them in some capacity after his ass is on the street in January 2005?

What a total tool!

[nannygoat]

11. Here ya go...

Cheney is still paid by Pentagon contractor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,912515,00.html

[kysrsoze]

33. Yeah, he says it's back pay - what a goddamned liar!

Evil to the core.

[UpInArms]

14. link? how about several mainstream ones

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/cheney000812.html

excerpt:


The board of the Dallas-based Halliburton Co. approved the deal for Cheney on July 25, the day Texas Gov. George W. Bush announced he had chosen Cheney as his running mate. Cheney had previously notified the board on July 20 that he would probably be leaving to join the GOP ticket.
Cheney, who served as the company’s chairman and chief executive, has said that in leaving Halliburton, which paid him $1.3 million last year, he will “take a bath” financially. He did not comment on the matter Saturday.

and http://www.dallasnews.com/business/scottburns/columns/archives/2001/010610SU.htm

excerpt:

I learned about the cash while reading your public financial disclosure report, filed May 15th. It tells me what we already knew--- that with your retirement from Halliburton, you’re a rich man. But it also tells me that you have the bulk of your money in cash. Not stocks. Plain old cash, as though you were waiting for something to happen.

and http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/06/10/cheney-usat.htm

excerpt:

Cheney was paid $4.4 million in salary and benefits during 1999, his last full year at Halliburton. He received a retirement package worth more than $13 million for his five years of service. He also sold 660,000 shares of Halliburton stock worth about $35 million. Nell Minow, editor of The Corporate Library, an online publication covering corporate governance and performance, says Cheney should be held accountable for things that happened at Halliburton while he was in charge.

and http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/12/cheney.parachute.ap/

excerpt:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The oil services company that Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney ran the last five years has agreed to let him retire with a package worth an estimated at $20 million, a person familiar with the company's plan confirmed Saturday.

The board of the Dallas-based Halliburton Co. approved the arrangements July 25, the day Texas Gov. George W. Bush announced he had chosen Cheney as his running mate. Cheney had notified the board July 20 that he would probably be leaving to join the Republican ticket, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

**all that is just so there won't be any "revisionist historians" areound :evilgrin:

[colorado_ufo]

27. So THAT'S what all those underground explosions are about--

he's digging himself a freakin' vault to store all his money.

[Demobrat]

17. I believe it's called "deferred compensation".

Don't know what that means. Maybe somebody will ask Cheney. Or not.

[ixion]

3. coming from Dick "cheap shot" Cheney this means nothing

get out of the WH you stole, you evil sleaze. :grr:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

28. actually... he's in Lieberman's house

:hi: dick!

[Jacobin]

4. Actually, a very expensive shot

That's what we're pissed about Dickless!!!

Get yer striped uniform ready and tune up that pacemaker, cause when Dean is president and the house and senate are cleansed of a few repukes, we need to have us an investigation and a TRIAL!!!!

[RobertSeattle]

5. That's rich

Doing this is OK:
9/11
Saddam Hussein
9/11
Saddam Hussein
9/11
Saddam Hussein
9/11
Saddam Hussein

Doing this is Bad:
Cheney
Halliburton
Cheney
Halliburton
Cheney
Halliburton
Cheney
Halliburton

[Richardo]

13. LOL - use his MTP answer against him! Substitute as follows:

MR. RUSSERT: The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam Hussein you, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was you were involved in the September 11 attacks with Halliburton. Are you surprised by that?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. I think it’s not surprising that people make that connection.

[TEXASYANKEE]

19. HA!

ROTFLMAO!!!

[ginantonic40]

6. Cheney's definition of cheap

and the average American's definition are worlds apart.

[el_gato]

7. This is Good News

When they have to spend all their time defending they
have less time attacking and executing the agenda.

Fuck You Cheney!

[thebigidea]

8. someone is sucking on an oily thumb

what a creep! back to the bunker, dickie.

[Cocoa]

10. Daschle doing Russert's job for him

Russert seemed to treat that interview as a forum for Cheney to lie.

Next, I'd like to see the dems ask the follow-up questions regarding Cheney's forecast of 4% growth for the year. Exactly how far up his ass did Cheney go to get that number?

[Don_G]

12. If You Can't Take The Heat

Stay out of the limelight.

Besides, didn't "Unca" Dick delay divesting himself of control of his Haliburton stock until well after he assumed office?

[soupkitchen]

15. A multi-billion dollar cheap shot

[Mel]

16. Senator Lautenberg NJ

is on the Senate floor right now bring this up about Cheney.
Lautenberg said he was curious after hearing Cheney's statement of not having any ties to Halliburton so he looked it up and it's in Cheney's financial records!

[rocktivity]

18. Don't you know you're supposed to call it a "pension", Dick?

The payments, which appear on Mr Cheney's 2001 financial disclosure statement, are in the form of "deferred compensation" of up to $1M (£600,000) a year.
No no no no no! He shouldn't be taking ANY kind of compensation from a private company while he is in the White House. Especially not for a defense contractor. ESPECIALLY especially not a defense contractor he once worked for!

When he left Halliburton in 2000 to become George Bush's running mate, he opted not to receive his leaving payment in a lump sum but instead have it paid to him over five years, possibly for tax reasons.
Either you take the lump sum, or have it deferred until you leave office. Now he looks greedy and dishonest....BWAH HA HA HA HA HA!

An aide to the vice president said yesterday: "This is money that Mr Cheney was owed by the corporation as part of his salary for the time he was employed by Halliburton and which was a fixed amount paid to him over time."
And it didn't occur to anyone that it MIGHT look funny? Yeah, right. This may be a cheap shot, Dick, but it's an ACCURATE one!


rocknation

[denverbill]

20. They gave you a $34 million BRIBE, I mean 'severance package'.

And baby, has that 'severance package' paid off BIG TIME.

[gratuitous]

21. Unca Dick don't like answering questions, huh?

Well, they're about three years overdue, but I'm glad they're finally being asked. After all the tortured and labored contortions to try to make out that Clinton or Gore were corrupt, here's a patent, clear-as-glass example of corruption that seems to completely bamboozle all those intrepid reporters who so easily saw connections between everything the Clintons ever did and anyone who ever talked to them.

Cheney benefits when Halliburton benefits, and Halliburton benefits whenever Cheney, through the administration, orchestrates events designed to bring Halliburton more business. Open-ended, no-bid contracts to provide goods and services to the military in Iraq are clearly intended to benefit Halliburton, and that benefit inures to the benefit of Crash Cart. This is corruption, plain and simple.

[stevedeshazer]

22. He needs to be defibrillated

http://www.presidentmoron.com/cheneyzap.html

Go ahead.

[JI7]

34. i love that sign

that's too good and funny.

[damnraddem]

23. A cheap shot? I don't think so! Looks to me like it's a mighty ...

expensive shot. And part of a budget-busting shot, $200 billion more or less to invade Iraq. And that budget being part of the most expensive shot ever taken at our nation, the Dubya economic plan featuring tax cuts for the wealthy, combined with a strangled economy and an expensive, expansive military policy.

[Enraged_Ape]

24. The worst shot is the cheapest

Methinks he protests too much.

[snippy]

25. Got oil?

[Beetwasher]

26. He STILL has STOCK OPTIONS?!?!?

"Sen. Lautenberg also listed Halliburton stock options that are shown on Cheney's financial disclosure form -- some 233,000 shares in all that vest between 2007 and 2009".

He claims he donated them to a charitable organization. Let's see those books fat man!

JEEEEEZUSS FUCKING CHRIST!!!

[lindashaw]

30. He gets $180,000 per annum from Halliburton says Asia Times

What particularly incenses many critics is that Halliburton is still paying annual compensation to its former chief executive officer from 1995 to 2000, Dick Cheney. Cheney received stock and stock options in Halliburton valued at $33 million when he stepped down in 2000 to run for office, this after just five years heading the company. He continues to receive $180,000 a year from Halliburton in deferred compensation.


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ED17Ak01.html

[Wickerman]

29. 1 Million $'s is a cheap shot? I think we just defined the problem

When your VP sees 1 million a year from a company that holds exclusive contracts with the Fed as inconsequential, then there is a breakdown in that Vp's understanding of what is important to Americans. He is worse than Bush's dad and the grocery scanner... though its harder to say who is the larger crook.

[leesa]

32. I suspect both their crimes are much larger than this.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. Aw da po witow baby.

Life's a motherfucker. Ain't it Dickie boy.