Embattled Halliburton Unit Gets Bid

Associated Press via SiliconInvestor.com ^ | 4. August 2002 | David Pace

[1rudeboy]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Since Dick Cheney became vice president, a subsidiary of his former company was chosen the exclusive contractor for overseas Army troop support and Navy construction despite being under federal investigation for fraud.

The Navy contract went to the Halliburton Co. subsidiary, Brown & Root Services, despite a recommendation from the auditing arm of Congress that new bids be solicited for the construction contract. That recommendation was ignored.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Cheney could be retired for 50 years from Halliburton,but that won't stop the AP and NYT from trying to smear him. This thinly veiled, DNC orchestrated attempt to throw dirt on Bush and Cheney is getting so old and so transparent.Any doubt why the polls show Americans have so little respect for the media? Torricelli,Rubin,CitiGroup,Lieberman anyone??

[1rudeboy]

I wonder myself about the $2M fine. It would've been nice to know what the total contract price was; a fact easily within the grasp of the AP.

[FreeLibertarian]

Brown & Root seems to always make money when we go to war. They made a lot of money from the Vietnam War.

[cryptical]

When I was in the Navy (Seabee) the word was that Brown & Root was the place to apply after you got out, if you liked what you were doing and wanted better pay.

[Boyd]

Brown and Root are buy-partisan and have a long history of on-going proof.