E-Mail Revives Calls to Probe Halliburton, Cheney

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly unearthed Pentagon e-mail about Halliburton contracts in Iraq prompted fresh calls on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for probes into whether Vice President Dick Cheney helped his old firm get the deals.

The e-mail, reported in the latest edition of Time magazine, provided "clear evidence" of a relationship between Cheney and multibillion-dollar contracts Halliburton has received for rebuilding Iraq, Sen. Patrick Leahy said.

"It totally contradicts the vice president's previous assertions of having no contact" with federal officials about Halliburton's Iraq deals, Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, said in a conference call with reporters.

"It would be irresponsible not to hold hearings," Leahy said, adding that several committees on Capitol Hill, from appropriations to governmental affairs, would have jurisdiction to convene such a probe.

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New Jersey's Sen. Frank Lautenberg, another Democrat, urged the chair of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, Republican Sen. Susan Collins, to subpoena e-mails and any other evidence of contacts between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Cheney's office on Halliburton's Iraq contracts, Lautenberg's spokesman said.


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[happynewyear]

1. nail Cheney for his crimes!

Including fraud along with war crimes!

:dem: :kick:

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Yeah baby!!

[AndyTiedye]

5. Can We Impeach Him Now? Really!

[Catfight]

2. we all knew politicians are corrupt but this administration flaunts it.

[Beetwasher]

3. Nice!

Keep the heat on!

[Mandate My Ass]

6. It seems as though someone is going after Cheney

big time.

One of the facets of the prison torture scandal that I found interesting is that the timing of the "leak" possibly soured a merger between Titan and Lockheed Martin (on whose board sat Mrs. Dick until 2000).

In addition to the shenanigans of the mercs they hired, some other dirty laundry surfaced which may sour the deal permanently and the shares of the common stock are not going at the rate they were last year when the merger was announced. If they wanted to hit Dick where he lives, my guess would be his wallet.

[Generator]

18. His wallet-yep.

Ah, another Pentagon leak. I'm loving those military boys that have had it up to their eyebrows.

On Friday I said they were ramping it up to a scandal a day, and hear ya go.

Teflon Cheney is still wearing his suit, though it's getting smelly.

[Just Me]

7. Good grief!!! Does it take a public confession to nail these,...

,...bastards?!?!?!!!!

C'mon, already.

As a former attorney who represented court-appointed "little" people,...the most innocuous of implicated evidence forced them into "pleas" for their liberty.

This is totally disgusting!!!! The whole despotic cronyism is sick beyond belief!!!

[sundancekid]

8. and, after these investigations, give him to Spitzer for insider trading

on his Halliburton stocks: he sold 2 batches of over 500,000 when the price for HAL was around $52/share, and then very shortly thereafter the stock collapsed to $12/share when Cheney disclosed the billions in asbestos lawsuit claims against Dressler (that Cheney had just merged with Halliburton and thereby had insider knowledge of asbestos claims);

and on top of all of this: ask Spitzer to find out who and why stocks for companies (such as United and American Airlines) that would be most affected by 9/11 attacks showed a whole lot of "put options" (betting that stock prices would go down) on them by people who made millions of dollars ...

[DFWJock]

9. Wait...

I thought Senate hearings were suppose to be for important stuff, you know, like blow jobs...

[maddezmom]

10. oh yeah, where is independent counsel Kenneth Starr now?

:eyes:

[Catch22Dem]

13. HAHAHAHAHA

That was good. Welcome to DU :toast:

[damnraddem]

11. Impeach Cheney now!

And redefeat Dubya in November.

Impeaching both makes no sense, because then we'd get Hastert.

[struggle4progress]

12. Borrow and Spend! Contracts for Friends! Borrow and Spend!

[MurrayDelph]

14. Shades of Gerald Ford

OK. They replace Cheney with someone acceptable, such as a McCain
(He may not be my choice, but he is better than any other Repub I can think of; which is damning with almost no praise), and THEN we can impeach Bush (Better yet, ship his ass off to The Hague).

[dusty64]

15. I'm pretty sure this too

will disappear. I saw nothing about it in the papers and wonder if it even made the tv news. Now you can fuck a whole Planet if you are a rightwing scum, but can't even get a consensual blowjob if you're a Democrat. I'm sick of this shit.

[snippy]

17. Another day, another republican felony. I too am sick of this shit. n/t

[crossroads]

16. Cheney is soooooo corrupt!

He is a disgusting pig at the WH trough...
:kick:

[dusty64]

19. See it is getting buried!

:kick: