David A. Smith/Halliburton Google News Search 61 Entries!!!! LINK

[Blackhatjack]

http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wn&q=%22David+A.+Smith%22+AND+Halliburton&filter=0

Now this seems to be getting through to the MSM

See this thread for background http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2589634&mesg_id=2589634

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1. Alright! It looks like Halliburton took a page out of O'Dell's Diebold play book..

The company marked all information it gave to the government as proprietary, whether it was or not, the report found. The government promises not to disclose proprietary data so a company's most valuable information is not divulged to its competitors.

By marking all information proprietary _ including such normally releasable data as labor rates _ KBR abused federal regulations, the report said.

Here we go!!! hang on for the ride!

[CorpGovActivist]

2. A Good Place to Keep Watch...

http://quicktake.morningstar.com/Stock/AllNews.asp?Country=USA&Symbol=HAL&pgid=qtqnlinknews

Best,

- Dave

[DemReadingDU]

4. NYT article showed up

11/7/06 Cost of Taking Fuel to Iraq Is Questioned
A Halliburton subsidiary charged the Iraqi government as much as $25,000 per month for each of as many as 1,800 fuel trucks that were to deliver gasoline to Iraq after the 2003 invasion, but the trucks often spent days or weeks sitting idle on the border, says a report released yesterday by an auditing agency sponsored by the United Nations.

The agency said in a statement that the auditing firm it hired had found that some of the contract costs that had been questioned earlier seemed to be justified. But the agency said the findings raised new questions about hundreds of millions of dollars billed by the company under a $2.4 billion contract that the Army awarded on the eve of the conflict to KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root.

The new audit gives the first detailed picture of how the company incurred many of those costs.

read more...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/middleeast/07contracts.html?ex=1163480400&en=91c0759529988d79&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS

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5. A UN investigation, announced today, you say?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IdesOfOctober/9

; )

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[CorpGovActivist]

6. Exporting the Abramoff Agenda...

"One of my concerns is that Halliburton is not only exporting public corruption under the guise of spreading democracy, but that it is also working on energy projects that harm American energy-producing jobs, such as those found in the coal producing regions of Appalachia. Voters in such areas as Southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania have a right to know about these matters."

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45012/000126947606000004/taleoftwodavidsmiths.htm

http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=smith+david+allen&CIK=&filenum=&State=&SIC=&owner=include&action=getcompany

Good to see that the UN is looking at this sort of stuff. It's a threat to the sovereignty of developing democracies. We shouldn't be exporting the Abramoff Agenda.

- Dave

[IdesOfOctober]

7. A rethinking of the neocon position...

... on multilateralism is long overdue.

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[IdesOfOctober]

3. Capitol Hill...

... was a veritable ghost town, today.

But the MSM is all over this now.

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