$$$-The Real Reason Cheney would not let Bush Close Gitmo

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The Real Reason Cheney would not let Bush Close Gitmo
By: perris Saturday January 31, 2009 11:14 am 0

Hard to believe I'm just finding this 04 article and harder to believe it has not been discussed
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/041004-gitmo.htm

Since January 2002, Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown & Root unit has performed more than $50 million in construction projects at Guantanamo Bay. The work is performed under a Pentagon contract for emergency construction work worldwide known as ConCap, short for Contingency Construction Capabilities Contract.

Interesting, there he is, vice president cheney looming large as day to make profit from gitmo

Here's the scary part, look at when the project began;

The contract was devised in the mid-1990s so that military units could quickly obtain construction and engineering services in response to natural disasters, military operations, humanitarian emergencies, and other crises. At the time a ConCap contract is awarded, it is not known precisely what work a company will be required to perform.

The first such contract went to Perini International of Framingham, Mass., and J.A. Jones Management Services of Charlotte, N.C., in 1995. The second, ConCap II, was awarded to KBR in 2001. With payments under that contract close to reaching its $300 million ceiling, a third ConCap contract, this one with a ceiling of $500 million, was given to KBR in July.

The Pentagon agency in charge of the ConCap contract would not disclose how many other companies were considered for the new contract. According to news reports, three firms, including KBR, were considered for ConCap II.

surprise surprise, haliburton make money on gitmo

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/3369

[kaygore]

1. Follow the $$$$$

[elizfeelinggreat]

3. always follow the $

I'm sure that was why they HAD to stop Senator Kerry.

remember this? (from wikipedia):

During their investigation of Noriega, Kerry's staff found reason to believe that the Pakistan-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) had facilitated Noriega's drug trafficking and money laundering. This led to a separate inquiry into BCCI, and as a result, banking regulators shut down BCCI in 1991. In December 1992, Kerry and Senator Hank Brown, a Republican from Colorado, released The BCCI Affair, a report on the BCCI scandal. The report showed that the bank was crooked and was working with terrorists, including Abu Nidal. It blasted the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, the Customs Service, the Federal Reserve Bank, as well as influential lobbyists and the CIA.<48>

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2. I'm sure we will be finding a lot of articles and other information

that was once buried.

K&R

[LiberalEsto]

4. The Con in ConCap

must stand for Con, as in con job.

[liberal N proud]

5. And it is the reason he is speaking out now about terra

[mopinko]

6. didn't we used to have something called the army corp of engineers for this

kind of thing? and didn't it bring good recruits into the army, and send them out ready for good jobs? to me, that is a real irritant in this whole privatization of military services. the army used to be a good place to get a real world education/training. now all anybody in the army does is shoot and get shot at.