Is CNN kidding with this Halliburton headline?

[Cocoa]

Halliburton blows whistle on kickbacks


They can't be serious, can they?

[StClone]

1. With the money these guys make (steal)

They have an upfront proactive public relations (cover up/damage control/diversion) programs.

[GoBlue]

2. This is a hoot

...but said the services contract contained an

"irregularity"

that violated the company's code of ethics.

[Cocoa]

4. I suspect the real irregularities at Halliburton

are when tax money actually goes into productive work. Graft is the norm, I'm sure.

[9215]

3. Halliburton squeals on itself

Here is a choice snip from the Halliburton spokeswoman:

"It is the combination of these audit services that provides our customers the confidence to award and re-award such significant government contracts to our firm," she added. "As a company with a successful history of government contracting, as well as a dedicated set of corporate values and ethics, we continue to uphold honesty and integrity throughout our business practices."


"Corporate values and ethics"?????

Merchants of Death is more like it.

[Cocoa]

5. how did Halliburton come to be so darn ETHICAL?

must be a legacy from the Cheney years. That guy is all about ethics. They call him Mr. Clean, they say he's always boring everyone with his nonstop lecturing on the importance of honesty over profit. People tell him, lighten up, Dick. He says NO, I will not lighten up about ethics. It's too important.

[arcane1]

6. lol, stop it you're killing me!

LMAO

[NashVegas]

8. When They Found Out the Audit Wasn't Over After All, Is My Guess

just a thought

[leesa]

13. Funny. Are you auditioning for WH press spokesman?

[9215]

11. Here is some Halliburton ethics. Please add your own

Cheney Led Halliburton
To Feast at Federal Trough
State Department Questioned Deal
With Firm Linked to Russian Mob
By Knut Royce and Nathaniel Heller <http://www.publicintegrity.org/staff.html>
<http://www.public-i.org/story_01_080200.htm>
Washington, August 2) Under the guidance of Richard Cheney, a get-the-government-out-of-my-face conservative, Halliburton Company over the past five years has emerged as a corporate welfare hog, benefiting from at least $3.8 billion in federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans.


One of these loans was approved in April by the U.S. Export-Import Bank. It guaranteed $489 million in credits to a Russian oil company whose roots are imbedded in a legacy of KGB and Communist Party corruption, as well as drug trafficking and organized crime funds, according to Russian and U.S. sources and documents.


Or this:


Bectel claims Halliburton dominates Iraqi oil work: http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/080903A.shtml
....Officials of the Corps of Engineers did not return numerous phone calls yesterday seeking comment on the contract. But last month, in response to questions from other companies about Halliburton's role, the corps said on its Web site that all potential bidders had received the same information to "eliminate any competitive advantage" Halliburton might have from its involvement in the Iraqi reconstruction work so far. ......

Or this:
U.S. Gives No-Bid Contract to Halliburton To Expand Guantanamo Bay
Posted on Democracy Now. <http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1413258> U.S. Gives No-Bid Contract to Halliburton To Expand Guantanamo Bay Jail Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root has been awarded a no-bid contract to expand the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay. The extra space will allow the U.S. to hold 10 percent more detainees at the base.



Or this:


Breakdown of Halliburton contracts: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=319417
<http://juneauempire.com/stories/091003/opi_myturn.shtml>

The Washington Post reported that Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth billions of dollars out of Operation Iraqi Freedom from no-bid contracts BushCo awarded it. Here is a partial breakdown:
Fully one-third of the $3.9 billion per month cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going directly to Halliburton.
$1 billion has been paid Halliburton through mid-August alone, plus ...
$705 million for an initial round of oil field work.
$142 million for base camp operations in Kuwait.
$170 million for logistical support for Iraqi reconstruction.
$28 million for construction of POW camps.
$39 million for base camps in Jordan.
$183 million for Afghanistan.
A staggering $300 million jumbo contract for the Navy, and (brace yourself) ...
An eye-popping $7 billion to put out non-existent fires at Iraqi oil wells.
The sheer size of Halliburton's incredible windfall from BushCo is breathtaking - and, there's no end in sight!
5. Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton, the world's largest oil pipeline manufacturer, during the 1990s. Will you finally admit that Cheney, through September 2001, used his influence as vice president to make deals with the Taliban and others to build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan down to a failing Enron power plant in Dabhol, India, near Bombay? Isn't it true that a Taliban representative was in Washington, D.C. on 9-11 to discuss that very project?
6. Why is it that the unfolding scandal of Halliburton's own corrupt accounting practices, similar to Enron's, costing taxpayers and stockholders hundreds of millions of dollars, which occurred while Cheney was CEO in the late '90s, is given so little attention in the media at this time?
"Don't let yesterday take up to much of today"

[banana republican]

7. How Timely

AFTER the Gov't Auditors found the problems;

AFTER the press reported that halliburton FAILED their Gov't audit

and just BEFORE the indictiments...

[burythehatchet]

9. Oh you're so cynical tut-tut-tut

[truthspeaker]

10. in other news, fox blows whistle on thefts from henhouse

[dmr]

12. Blame everyone else spin, just like Bush*

This is what they are teaching this generation of children.

"What will we tell our children?" the neo-con asked back in the 90s