White House, Cheney aide approved Halliburton deal

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White House Officials and Cheney Aide Approved Halliburton Contract in Iraq, Pentagon Says
By ERIK ECKHOLM
NEW YORK TIMES

Published: June 14, 2004


n the fall of 2002, in the preparations for possible war with Iraq, the Pentagon sought and received the assent of senior Bush administration officials, including the vice president's chief of staff, before hiring the Halliburton Company to develop secret plans for restoring Iraq's oil facilities, Pentagon officials have told Congressional investigators.

The newly disclosed details about Pentagon contracting do not suggest improper political pressures to direct business to Halliburton, the Houston-based company that Vice President Dick Cheney once led.

But they raise questions about assertions by Mr. Cheney and other administration officials that he knew nothing in advance of the Halliburton contracts and that the decisions were made by career procurement specialists, without involvement by senior political appointees.

Kevin Kellems, a spokesman for the vice president, had no immediate comment on the new disclosures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/politics/14PROC.html?ex=1087790400&en=e52208c20470d767&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[whistle]

1. Follow the money....

...whose bank accounts grew from these deals?

[LittleApple81]

2. Why doesn't the NYT just come out and call them LIIIAAAARS!!

They need to take lessons from a humorist, Al Franken.

[struggle4progress]

3. No kidding!

[UpInArms]

4. okay, I'll bite

But they raise questions about assertions by Mr. Cheney and other administration officials that he knew nothing in advance of the Halliburton contracts and that the decisions were made by career procurement specialists, without involvement by senior political appointees.

Since they "raise" questions, who actually has the balls to ask them?

[LittleApple81]

7. They don't "raise questions" they ANSWER questions. LIIIAAARS!!!!! n/t

[Tight_rope]

5. I knew it, you knew it....why is the NYT just finding out!....Slow media!

[havocmom]

6. Do you get the feeling the US media is racing to try and avoid public

notice that they have let themselves become irrelevant at best and accomplices at worst? Gads, what disappointment the fourth estate has been as America was taken over by a mob of vile thugs.

If we could hook a generator to Mr. Franklin's grave, we could power New York and Philadelphia from his spinning alone.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Franklin generator.

Lol.

[rawstory]

11. It's amazing...

that Halliburton can stay in the news so consistently! How the hell do they do it? Week after week after week...

[dbt]

8. Big Dick Kick!

"knew nothing in advance," my shiny metal ass!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[DaveSZ]

9. .

That's the most well-placed Kerry ad I've ever seen (on the NY Times link).

[gratuitous]

12. Wow, sure makes Cheney looks like a pants-on-fire

He told Little Timmy, credulous boy reporter, on Defeat the Press that he had no financial connections to Halliburton, and wasn't involved in any way with steering no-bid, cost-plus government contracts their way.

Now we find out that his office did indeed steer government contracts Halliburton's way, and he took more than $150,000 from them last year. I don't know what $150,000 looks like in Cheney's world of the overrich, but it looks like a nice chunk of change here in working world.

[John_H]

13. POT! DRAFT! REAGAN! BERG! What's up with DU these days?

Threads that discuss the things that will bring about Chimp's demise drop like stones, and threads about stuff that even "American Morning" wouldn't bother with get 600 posts. Is this the new freeper strategy to keep the harmless threads kicked or, even worse, has DU become fashionable at TKE houses accross America?

[havocmom]

14. you're right , so here is a kick for this one

:kick:

[Barrett808]

15. kick

[John_H]

16. MISSILE PODS!!!! AMERICAN IDOL!!! MORE POT!!! CLINTON'S PORTRAIT!!!

kick.