Pentagon audit finds Halliburton overcharged

[MaineDem]

http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/reuters12-11-123248.asp?reg=mideast&vts=121120031236

I hope this isn't a dupe. I did look, I swear.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 — A Pentagon audit of Halliburton, the oil services firm once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, has found the company overcharged for fuel it brought into Kuwait from Iraq, military sources said on Thursday.

[Karenina]

1. In the famous words of Gomer Pyle,

Surprise, surprise, surprise! :eyes:

[MO_Dem]

19. My thoughts, exactly!

When I started reading this!

[maxanne]

2. did anyone

expect anything else?

[louis-t]

3. I doubt if this 'notification' will change anything

and I would be real surprised if Haliburton isn't manipulating the oil market to get prices up in the region. (Iraqis now pay something like 18 cents a gallon!)

[saigon68]

5. "SOUNDS GOOD TO US" shouted the HALLIBURTON STOCKHOLDERS

And to all a good night!!!!

[tom_paine]

4. So, it's not like they'll get in trouble or anything

The Imperial Family, it's allies and cronies are immune from the Rule of Law.

Some notable examples:

Ken Lay
Oxycontin Rush
The Anthrax Assassin

[schultzee]

13. Interesting that Daschle got the anthrax when he was going to oppose

the Patriot act. And after that he became ever so much more wimpy. But we all know that is just coincidence and silly conspiracy theory.

[benfranklin1776]

16. Also administration officials found to have committed ethics violations

September 23, 2003 — 6:58 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators have concluded President
Bush's former telecommunications policy chief committed three ethics
violations by allowing industry lobbyists to throw her a party. The Justice
Department, however, is declining to prosecute her.

The previously confidential findings by the Commerce Department's
inspector general came in late June, two weeks before Nancy Victory
announced her resignation as assistant secretary for telecommunications
and information.

The inspector general said that Victory violated ethics standards that
prohibit federal employees from accepting gifts from anyone whose
interests they substantially affect and require them to avoid any
appearance of impropriety in carrying out their official duties.

Ten days after the catered party in her honor in October 2001, Victory
urged a policy change benefiting telecommunications companies that
helped pay for the catered $3,000 event with 60 to 80 guests at her home
in Great Falls, Va.


http://www.redding.com/news/national/stories/20030923nat083.shtml

[tom_paine]

22. "The Justice Department, however, is declining to prosecute her..."

Yet another piece of proof, as if one were needed, showing that selective prosecution, the Staple of any Totalitarian Society, is settling in nicely within the shores of Imperial Amerika.

Remember when America was part of the Free World? It seems like a lifetime ago...

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. I AM surprized !!! - - no, no, - not that Haliburton overcharged

. . but that A Pentagon audit actually was performed ?? !!!

. . and lordy only knows what future "audit's" may find !!

Pheww !!

oh ok

- there won't be too many

- "national securty" and all -

(sigh)

[tom_paine]

24. Not to worry, Canuck, another couple Bushevik Purges

and such audits will be a thing of the past, an anachronism like trustworthy elections and being free from constant tracking, recording, and surveillance...oh, and don't forget a Free and Independant Press as one of the anachronisms we have lost forever.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Fuel it brought FROM Iraq TO Kuwait?

Let me get this straight - Halliburton brings oil FROM Iraq TO Kuwait, yet today there's a story that says Iraq will need to IMPORT oil FROM Kuwait TO Iraq. See:

Kuwait to supply Iraq with additional fuel to meet shortage

One would presume that Halliburton will be handling the transaction, so they'll be able to profit from the same oil TWICE??? Wow!!! What a racket!!!

[notadmblnd]

21. No No

they are importing oil from Kuwait to Iraq. The price is somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.50 a gallon. They sell it to Iraqis' for between 5-15 cents. All profits courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

[catzies]

8. Ooooohhhhh. DCAA. When I was in govt contracting I lived in fear

of running afoul of the DCAA.

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. oh - ok - >> DCAA = Defense Contract Audit Agency

. .

most people don't like the idea of an audit

- now I get it

[amazona]

9. never have I read a less startling headline

We knew it. We just knew it.

[bushisanidiot]

11. Oopsie Daisy! I guess Cheney's Company Is Gonna Have To Give The $$ Back

to the american taxpayers.

not bloody likely. it's already been deposited into president AWOL's re-selection campaign.

[LynneSin]

12. I almost don't get excited about this stuff anymore

Simply because it seems like we have our "Smoking Gun" but then the news dies out and nobody cares that our government is raking over the common folks like us.

I have a feeling that Bush/Cheney will once again get another:

[cosmicdot]

14. thought the contract terms were written to encourage gouging

no-cap, cost-plus etc.

[markus]

15. Read the article on AP Yahoo

The unnamed source says it "goes beyond overcharging" whatever that means. But it sure doesn't sound good, now, does it Dick?

And we wonder why they kept the war profiteering amendment out of the $87B.

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. "we wonder why they kept the war profiteering amendment out of the $87B."

. . we wonder ?

. . heck

this war is ALL about profit - no?

oh - I rembember somtething about freedom and democracy

but heck

- that feedom and democracy thing seems to be deteriorating right in the good ole U S of A ?

The USA is on a mission to have global control - even space

They will NOT succeed in the long run, but I fear millions will die in the interim

(sigh)

[priller]

23. Remember also one of the very first Clinton-era rules Bush overturned

Clinton had established a rule banning contractors who had defrauded the government from future government work. Bush (read, Cheney) got rid of that rule almost the first day in office.

[pinto]

17. thanks for the post MaineDem, the neo con wars have begun...n/t

[loudnclear]

20. We should be flooding the faxes to CNN,FOX,MSNBC, CBS,ABC

asking why this isn't more important news than MJ?

[dreamvision]

31. That is a great thought

YOUR RIGHT...

MJ is not running this country

BUSH AND DICK ARE and they should be held accountable, and they are screwing with the American Citizen's livihoods.

[MO_Dem]

25. Kicking

important story

[CalebHayes]

26. What a shock!!

Not.

[young_at_heart]

28. There's got to be a mistake

Halliburton would never "screw" our great country!

[dreamvision]

27. The most greedy company and other article

The most greedy company and including the White Administration ever. It really stinks and they sucking from the American people continually.

I had read this article too (it from the Guardian UK source, but I am sure one can find at other sources too).. Not only is Dick Cheney getting paid as Vice P. of USA- he is still get paid by
Halliburton according to this article. I mean come on. We have had so many presidents some good and not so good, but this bunch of monkeys beats all.

Here the beginning of the article and then the link

Cheney is still paid by Pentagon contractor

Bush deputy gets up to $1m from firm with Iraq oil deal

Robert Bryce in Austin, Texas and Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday March 12, 2003
The Guardian

Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,912426,00.html

[Rose Siding]

29. Dean made a statement about this-

Statement on Halliburton Audit
BURLINGTON--Governor Howard Dean, M.D., issued the following statement today on reports that a Pentagon audit has found that Halliburton overcharged the government:

"We've recently learned what many Americans have suspected for a long time -- special interest contributor Halliburton is overcharging the American taxpayers. Now this President is preventing entire nations from bidding on contracts in Iraq so that his campaign contributors can continue to overcharge the American taxpayers. For the safety of our troops, we need to make sure every penny in Iraq is spent wisely and efficiently."

http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/002651.html

[imax2268]

30. Took them long enough...

but as usual...nothing will come of this...they will continue to rape the American Taxpayers...