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Defense Dept. is removing Corps of Engineers from Halliburton contract
USA Today ^
| 12/30/03
Posted on 12/30/2003 5:48:49 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:41:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The Defense Department is removing the Army Corps of Engineers from overseeing oil imports into Iraq, acting just weeks after Pentagon auditors said Halliburton
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: armycorpsofengineers; cheney; defdept; dod; halliburton; iraq; notbreakingnews; overcharge
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Sounds like DoD wasn't impressed with the Army's project management skills. The Army COE has got to be hating this since they're more of a business than a military organization.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I can't make out what this article is trying to say, other than the usual cheap shot swipes at Bush and Cheney.
Seems a little trite now, considering that the auditors found no evidence of overcharging or other malfeasance by Halliburton.
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posted on
12/30/2003 5:55:55 PM PST
by
Ramius
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"Halliburton Vice President Dick Cheney's former firm " Why is it that USA Today is so dead set against Lady Bird Johnson's old firm?
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:00:51 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Excellence in Shameless Self-Promotion)
To: Ramius
My initial impression was about the same, "breaking left news". Mad cow didn't catch on so they turn the page to a new crisis to resolve.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
the Kuwaiti oil company gouged halliburton... what should halliburton do? eat it? bunch of leftmedia crap.
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:05:01 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: sauropod; glock rocks
Sheesh, they act like Dick Cheney is still running Halliburton. This is the same media that refuses to mention ANY references of Mrs. Daschle having anything to do with Boeing or the USAF's leased-tanker deal. No political agendas happening here.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Absolutely.
bottomfeedingleftmedia primer:
cheney=halliburton
cheney=halliburton
cheney=halliburton
lather, rinse, repeat.
... and nobody in middle America who drives a minivan has the faintest idea what dasshole's wife does for a living.
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:28:09 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
NY Times: No Evidence of Halliburton Profiteering
A comprehensive investigation into Halliburton's multibillion-dollar contract to restore Iraq's oil infrastructure shows "no evidence of profiteering" by the Houston-based oil services company.
That's the verdict by the New York Times, which assigned its Whitewater sleuth Jeff Gerth and investigative ace Don Van Atta to lay bare all the tawdry details of how Vice President Dick Cheney's former company was reaping big-bucks profits from sweetheart deals imagined by Democrats.
One problem: Gerth and Van Atta found almost nothing for Dems to hang their hats on. In fact, not only couldn't the Times find any evidence that Halliburton was stuffing its pockets under-the-table - even the aboveboard revenue collected by the company hasn't been much to write home about.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1048320/posts
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:52:40 PM PST
by
Valin
(We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
To: Ramius
What this is "article" is trying to say is... "Halliburton Vice President Dick Cheney's former firm may have overcharged taxpayers"... say a lie often enough, folks will think it's true.
man this connections so slow tonight I forgot what I was going to say zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz cool a knew spell button
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posted on
12/30/2003 7:15:54 PM PST
by
heavenbound
(so what did I say wrong)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Sounds more like an old fashioned Washington pi$$ing contest between the old defense depot folks and the army. The sad/funny thing about this is by the time the depot adds their up charge for direct overhead, technical indirect o/h and g&a the cost the government incures will be higher than it was through Halliburton.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Sounds like DoD wasn't impressed with the Army's project management skills. The Army COE has got to be hating this since they're more of a business than a military organization. The army COE is just about the most incompetent bunch I ever had any dealing with.
To: glock rocks
Guess I won't take what you posted too personally as I live in the Midwest, drive a minivan and DO know what Little Timmy's wife does for a living. There's a big invesitigation-in-waiting there, not that the lib media will ever bother.
Stop profiling Midwestern minivan drivers, darn it! You know it's not legal! (;
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posted on
12/30/2003 7:45:07 PM PST
by
mplsconservative
(I'm a South Dakota native, and darned ashamed of it, well, just the Tommy Daschle part.)
To: mplsconservative
oh my... excuse the profiling... nasty habit.
nice tagline :o)
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posted on
12/30/2003 8:18:29 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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posted on
12/30/2003 11:06:27 PM PST
by
Rastus
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
more like a government beaurocracy than a business
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posted on
12/31/2003 4:19:38 AM PST
by
bobjam
To: Rastus
Just one of the many things from that article--
"Not many people want to drive eight to fifteen days through a war zone with a truck full of flammable materials," the company says. "Three drivers have been killed and many others injured while performing this mission, and 60 vehicles have been damaged."
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posted on
12/31/2003 6:03:57 AM PST
by
Bella
To: jungleboy; Excuse_My_Bellicosity; All
Halliburton to Lose Iraq Oil ProjectDec 31, 8:40 AM (ET)
By LARRY MARGASAK
(same article)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
We do COE projects often at my place of employment. Basically you take a private project of similar scope and cost and add 50% to it to comply with the extra B.S. that the COE requires.
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posted on
12/31/2003 6:41:29 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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