US lawmakers challenge US Army decisions on KBR

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday questioned the Army's continued use of KBR Inc (KBR.N) for logistics work in Iraq in the face of confirmed reports of poor past performance.

Representative Edolphus Towns, who heads the House Oversight Committee, wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates to question the Army's decision to award KBR a new contract valued at up to $2.8 billion despite a wide array of problems.

Towns, citing problems with KBR's maintenance of electrical systems at bases where U.S. troops were fatally electrocuted and "numerous allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse," asked Gates to provide the committee with a wide array of documents about the KBR contract by March 17.

"It seems inconceivable to me that the Defense Department would award this new contract to KBR in Iraq," Towns said, citing the company's "poor past performance."



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0311566620100304

[aquart]

1. It wasn't "poor performance." It was negligent homicide.

It was depraved indifference to human life.

[Lasher]

2. Everybody knows things are always done best in the private sector.

Benefactors like to keep these revolving doors spinning.

[Wizard777]

3. It's a about time! KBR should be prohibited from receiving contracts.

I like that they are looking at going back to a self sufficient Army. Time to dismantle the Bush/Cheney war profiteering machine.

[ro1942]

4. Couldn't agree more

It's so blatantly corrupt.All our money going to the private sector.

[Wizard777]

5. The republicans can't oppose it. ACORN didn't kill anybody and they cut their funding.

But I'm quite confident the democrats can wimp out on holding the Republicans to where THEY set the bar. Not only will the democrats allow the republicans to move the goal posts. The democrats will carry the goal posts for them.......like they were a couch. No we don't look so good with the goal posts there. More them over there. Well now the republicans look good but the democrats don't look totally evil. Move them over there.

:banghead:

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Those LAWMAKERS had better not piss Dick Cheney off, or he

will go on FOX and talk mean about them.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. I am begining to question if anything will ever really change