Dick Cheney’s Former Company GAVE U.S. SOLDIERS CANCER And Is Now Suing Them

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"...This is the ultimate form of capitalism, the very heart of it. There is no excuse, but until we hold these criminals, both the recipients of these contracts as well as those who granted them, liable for their actions, not just in a civil suit but in criminal, we can only sit back and watch the world burn...."

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If we thought the no-bid contracts given to Dick Cheney’s company, Halliburton, were too good to be true before, just hold on to your hats. After the company lost a lawsuit over the exposure of our soldiers to carcinogens, it turns out that the contract they signed with the DoD exempts them from any damages. And this was exposed by a lawsuit by a dozen Iraq war veterans out of Oregon. Initially, the veterans could not even file suit against Halliburton. It was only earlier this year that the Supreme Court enabled these veterans, exposed to the known carcinogen hexavalent chromium to even pursue their case. The case was then found in their favor, with the jury awarding them $85 million in damages.


But while the case went through appeals, Halliburton’s former subsidy, known as KBR, already had filed suit against the veterans for legal costs. Yes, you read that right. They are suing for legal costs in a case they lost. Then, the 9th Circuit overturned the decision, claiming that it was out of jurisdiction and that the case needed to be handled in Texas instead. And now, it turns out, KBR would not have to pay for the damages in the first place. Under the contract with the Department of Defense, as revealed in a letter from Oregon’s Senator Ron Wyden with several other members of the Oregon delegation, any damages and legal costs are paid by the federal government itself.

“...As part of the original contract between the government and KBR, DoD agreed to assume all financial liability for KBR misconduct including unlimited reimbursement of KBR’s legal expenses. That contract also included a provision allowing DoD to take control of the litigation process, if necessary....”

http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2015/07/private-contractor-extorting-money-from-sick-vets-taxpayers-in-court/

So, someone sues KBR, the taxpayer gets to pay for it, and KBR is not liable for anything. That is sure a sweet deal given to the company once run by the then Vice President of the United States. When Obama took office, one of his first moves was the ending of these sweetheart contracts. However, KBR, like its former owner Halliburton, has blocked the implementation of these new agreements. “We see no need to change it,” according to KBR senior contracts manager Mary Wade. Of course they don’t, because it enables them to poison and kill US citizens without any culpability, all while pocketing billions in profits. Of course they see no need to change it, because they’re the ones liable. They have used lawsuits, threats, and other tricks to try and prevent any change to their contracting, but the time is running out.





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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/07/28/halliburton-poison/

[Mnemosyne]

1. Smug war criminal, Dick Cheney. nt

[AtomicKitten]

2. Effin hell.

[madokie]

3. I knew a guy who was working for KBR

in texas years ago, before they were bought by Halliburtin, I believe, that was injured on the job and sued them and got a giant settlement. I can't remember how much he got but he was set for life and then some. He was injured because of a lack of safety equipment and won the lawsuit due to that. Bill is dead and gone now but he came out a winner. His death had nothing to do with his injury, rather his crazy wife shot him. In fact his injury wasn't that bad, something like a broken ankle but the lack of safety equipment is what he won the suit over.
His crazy wife after shooting Bill brought their two infant children back to their hometown and then pulled in front of a train and it killed her. Both kids survived with minor injuries and were too young to remember all this I'm sure.

[Betty Karlson]

4. I wish I could still be surprised by such news.

But I have been conditioned to expect the worst. And I have never yet been disappointed in my expectations.

[JDPriestly]

5. The corruption in this country is sick. Sick. Sick. Sick.

And the Bushes and Cheneys and other Republicans are in the middle of it with a few Democrats tagging a long trying to compete for dirty players of the millenium.

What a bunch.

Go, Bernie.

[Enthusiast]

6. The war criminal gift that keeps on giving. This is the kind of shit we get for Looking Forward.

[jwirr]

7. I tried to google for the history of no bid contractes but could not find anything before recent

years. Does anyone know when the laws allowing this were passed?

There are rules about when this can be done such as when no other company can provide the service and when time is short. I do not remember the term during the Vietnam War. Did bush and chaney invent the idea?