Will the Halliburton Katrina contract news be buried?

[BlueEyedSon]

This was pretty much the extent of the coverage I found on Google News:

AROUND THE REGION

CONSTRUCTION
Halliburton hired for storm cleanup
The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.

KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685

[fasttense]

1. Nice to know our Vice President is making money off this tragedy.

I wonder if his family will get the money since he seems to have vanished off the face of the earth.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. on the plus side "you can't take it with you"!

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. What a brilliant idea!

They'll surely deduct the billion dollars missing from their budget in Iraq from their bill. They're not ones for government handouts....

Kind of like getting poor folk on welfare to do some kind of civic work.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Except they've already been paid and "lost"

their paycheck!

[annabanana]

4. well now that's just fucking great...

We know how well THAT outfit delivers what they promise.....

[Spazito]

5. Well, with Haliburton's glorious record, I will bet that...

of the 10 billion allocated to the hurricane disaster relief, 8.5 billion will disappear down Haliburton's black hole with not 'clean up' visible.

[cynatnite]

6. I didn't know Halliburton was the ONLY company that existed

:sarcasm:

:banghead: