Halliburton strikes again:
"Even though an Army audit determined that $263 million of charges by Halliburton were exaggerated or unjustified on its $2.41 billion no-bid contract for fuel deliveries and oil equipment repair in Iraq, the Army said it will pay all but $10.1 million of it. The Times reported Monday that the decision to withhold only 3.8 percent of the charges in question is far below the average of questionable charges that are withheld. That average has ranged between 56.4 percent and 75.2 percent over the last three years."
The biggest welfare cheats of them all? Halliburton, of course. How is it that we continue to let our elected officials grant contracts to these guys? Could there somehow be incentive for our government officials to do this? I wonder what Dick Cheney really thinks of all this. He couldn't be in on it, could he?
"Even though an Army audit determined that $263 million of charges by Halliburton were exaggerated or unjustified on its $2.41 billion no-bid contract for fuel deliveries and oil equipment repair in Iraq, the Army said it will pay all but $10.1 million of it. The Times reported Monday that the decision to withhold only 3.8 percent of the charges in question is far below the average of questionable charges that are withheld. That average has ranged between 56.4 percent and 75.2 percent over the last three years."
The biggest welfare cheats of them all? Halliburton, of course. How is it that we continue to let our elected officials grant contracts to these guys? Could there somehow be incentive for our government officials to do this? I wonder what Dick Cheney really thinks of all this. He couldn't be in on it, could he?
posted by Lou Schwing at 10:09 AM
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