http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/109342571424.htmWASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Pentagon auditors "strongly" urged the Army last week to withhold paying 15 percent of Halliburton's bills in Iraq for over $4 billion of logistical work, said a military document released on Tuesday.
The Aug. 16 memorandum from the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) to Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Illinois, said the DCAA found "numerous, systemic issues" with Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown and Root's cost estimates for work in Iraq supporting U.S. troops.
"We strongly encourage you (to) ... only allow payment of the 85 percent as specified in the (foreign procurement) clause until KBR submits adequate proposals," said the memo, signed by DCAA branch manager William Daneke.
Halliburton, which was run by Vice President Dick Cheney from 1995-2000, is involved in a long-standing billing dispute with the U.S. Army over documentation for its bills feeding and housing troops in Iraq and Kuwait under a giant 2001 logistics contract it has with the military.
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