Halliburton Memo Boosts Hill Critics

[NewJerseyDem]

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/49_132/news/5755-1.html (subscription required)

Armed with new evidence that suggests Vice President Cheney’s office may have had a role in approving a government contract for Cheney’s former employer, Halliburton, Senate Democrats are planning to force more votes on the oversight of government contracting in Iraq.

With the Defense Department reauthorization bill on the Senate floor for at least another week, Democrats are preparing a variety of amendments crafted to highlight what they consider widespread fraud and waste among contractors in Iraq, as well as the dubious nature under which they allege the Bush administration has awarded some contracts.

“A firewall needs to be established,” said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.). “There ought to be no question about the propriety of those contracts.”

The Democratic push to provide more transparency in military and reconstruction contracts relating to Iraq was given new life with the release this week of an Army Corps of Engineers e-mail by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that has also taken on Bush administration figures, including Cheney.

[Skittles]

1. war profiteers

:puke:

[Claire Beth]

3. Exactly!!!!!! n/t

[dusty64]

2. This story is going

nowhere. Has anyone seen it in their local rags or tv stations? Remember the headlines of President Gore at the buddhist temple.