[Allegra]

a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company...

Wow...they got it in there in the first sentence.

Way to go AP...you scummy media vermin.

[ravingnutter]

They also repeated it further down in the story:

Halliburton is the oil services conglomerate that Cheney once led. Congressional Democrats long have complained that KBR has benefited from its former ties to Cheney.

Unreal.