Waxman Should Ask Defense Contract Audit Agency: How Many Auditors in US vs. UAE?

[CorpGovActivist]

To locate a DCAA office within the continental US (CONUS): http://apps.dtic.mil/wobin/WebObjects/DCAAzipcode

To locate a DCAA office outside the contintental US (OCONUS): http://www.dcaa.mil/Audit_Office_Locator_OCONUS.htm

(Note the special callout of LOGCAP, the contract that Halliburton has botched so badly.)

As Chairman Waxman continues to look into Halliburton's contracting practices, perhaps he should work with the House Ways and Means Committee to ensure that there are adequate funds for enough auditors on the ground in the UAE, to make sure Halliburton continues to feel right at home?

http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?Issue=Iraq+Reconstruction

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1202

http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?Issue=Administration+Oversight

FYI...

Best to all,

- Dave

[Laurab]

1. K & R

SOMEONE is busy today!!!

:)

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Well...

... the Dubai thing is huge.

- Dave

[stillcool]

3. maybe you can help me out...

with this...if you have the time? I don't understand why moving their corporate headquarters makes that big of a difference. They're still a U.S. corporation, right?..and operate under the same national/international laws? Thanks for all your work...and I did take your advice and email Rep. Waxman to thank him and his staff for their work.

[Laurab]

5. I'm sure Dave can answer far better than I

but one thing I know is that they can move all their documents and paperwork out of the U.S. and I believe they would escape some, if not all of our regulations....

Edited to add - and not have them available for any ongoing or future investigations.

[CorpGovActivist]

6. As Just One Example...

... the e-mails that the CEO creates in Dubai will be subject to the UAE's discovery system, whereas the ones he created in Houston were subject to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (or Criminal/Evidence).

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/

While the corporation itself will likely remain incorporated in Delaware, American courts would have a more difficult time obtaining jurisdiction over matters that take place elsewhere.

- Dave

[Laurab]

4. I know - I've been posting your post in other threads...

the post to contact Waxman and Congress - it doesn't seem enough people are seeing it.

[halobeam]

7. rec 4!!

btw.. I asked a question on another thread of yours, which this one seems to answer. You certainly are thorough LOL!

Thanks for everything.

[hootinholler]

8. I disagree Dave.

National security demands that Halliburton be seized, placed in receivership, and investigated before the documants are gone.

-Hoot

[CorpGovActivist]

10. I Like Your Thinking...

... but don't forget: it's easier to copy docs nowadays:

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/whistleblowers.html

Don't be so sure they're making a clean getaway.

- Dave

[hootinholler]

11. What?

And allow a foriegn national corporation to control the US DOD LOGCAP? I don't think so.

:evilgrin:

-Hoot

[stillcool]

9. I've been thinking...

this could be the answer. If Congress would seriously attempt to divest itself and our government of the global corporate interests that hold it hostage, perhaps we could get back to the Constitution. More than anything else, it is the laws that Congress has enacted to favor the corporation over the individual that has killed democracy.

[w4rma]

12. We should just terminate all of Haliburton's security clearences, and therefore the vast majority of

their contracts.