KBR’s contracts are classified? What is the DoD hiding?

[unhappycamper]

KBR’s contracts are classified? What is the DoD hiding?
September 1, 2010 — Ms Sparky

Hexavalent chromium issues: Army Secretary says KBR contract still classified
Published: Tuesday, September 01, 2010, 6:41 PM
Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian

The Army’s combat mission in Iraq has ended, but details of the no-bid contract it signed with Kellogg, Brown and Root before the war started remain classified.

On Tuesday, Sec. of the Army John McHugh said he would not release the contract’s specifics that holds taxpayers — and not KBR — responsible for any harm to a soldier or civilian as it worked restoring Iraqi oil flows in 2003.

But in a two-page response to U. S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s demand for details, McHugh reveals how unusual the Army’s arrangement with the former Halliburton subsidiary was.

“Apart from the Restore Iraqi Oil contract with KBR, no other Army contracts awarded since 2001….contain indemnification provisions,” McHugh wrote. “The Army has made no payments as a result of indemnification provisions with contractors supporting contingency operations in Iraq. Afghanistan or anywhere else.”

In July, Blumenauer demanded the Army produce the contract after KBR’s claims of immunity emerged in a U.S. District Court case in Portland. Chris Heinrich, a KBR attorney, said in a sworn deposition that after KBR signed its Restore Iraqi Oil contract and as the March 2003 invasion was taking place, he went to the Pentagon himself to demand immunity for KBR.

[Octafish]

1. KBR electrocuted American service members.

KBR gets $35M contract despite electrocutions

Pentagon Admits More Electrocutions in Iraq -- KBR Denies Blame

Dark Side Dick Cheney's Halliburton ran these turds until they spun off from the heat after he "became" veep. Bipartisan warmongers, KBR's been making big money off the Pentagon teat in my time since NSAM 273 and the Gulf of Tonkin.

[haele]

2. Not everything in the files are classified, probably only a few contract items

items that dealt with location access, black-ops support, or security measures.
A file can be considered classified if even if there's only one diagram, ten-word paragraph or small chart in the 2 -or- 2000 page document that would be considered classified.
If they take the classified material out, the document can be downgraded to unclassified. However, they can get around that by using the FOUO (For Official Use Only) classification which means that a FIFA document has to be submitted to be able to view even unclassified documents.

I don't think most of the classification requirements in these documents deal with some sort of a nefarious "what are they hiding" program - it's probably something simple like a description of an access or security proccess that would be considered secret whether it was a KBR document or any other corporate or government document.

Haele

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. systematic, routine fraud on a grand scale

so large, that the numbers would make us dizzy. Payoffs, bribes, and worse.