GOP refusing to allow testimony on Halliburton spending

[shraby]

WASHINGTON - Halliburton Inc. paid high-priced bills for common items, such as soda, laundry and hotels, in Iraq and Kuwait and then passed the inflated costs along to taxpayers, according to several former Halliburton employees and a Pentagon internal audit.

Democrats in the House of Representatives, who are feuding with House Republicans over whether the spending should be publicly aired at a hearing on Tuesday, released signed statements Monday by five ex-Halliburton employees recounting the lavish spending.

Those former employees contend that the politically connected firm:

-Lodged 100 workers at a five-star hotel in Kuwait for a total of $10,000 a day while the Pentagon wanted them to stay in tents, like soldiers, at $139 a night.

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[lovedems]

1. Isn't this something

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Davis' spokesman Dave Marin said Republicans "simply had not had the time to properly flesh out, corroborate, investigate the many and wide-ranging claims that these individuals have made." If the whistleblowers turn out to be legit, he said, the committee may schedule "a follow-up hearing in the summer months."


They don't have the time to protect tax payers from war profiteering. They must be to busy trying to cover up all of the other scandals.
:shrug:

[jbfam4]

2. The job of the gop

is to protect the white house.....they don't do the work of the people who sent them there. When will America wake up!

[WildClarySage]

3. I don't think the people

will stand for another rug-sweepin'. I remember how pissed my parents were at overpriced hammers and toliets.