This is totally disguising and needs investigated now: A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, […]
OOPS! I meant America’s crook! As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records. The documents, obtained by Politico under […]
This is a really interesting story that is thankfully gaining attention. Halliburton announced this weekend that they will be moving their corporate headquarters from Houston, Texas to Dubai. There are a lot of questions surrounding this move – the biggest on their taxes. Halliburton generates a large portion of their income from U.S. contracts and […]
Sure – we can fork out all this money: The U.S. government already has a courthouse at Guantanamo Bay, but the Pentagon isn’t satisfied, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. It plans to spend $100 million of your tax dollars to build a huge new facility just down the hill. “This is very expensive for […]
The key issue of next week’s elections is Iraq and a hopeful start to oversight of the disaster Bush got us into. Now we find out that the administration gets rid of the only person who was conducting oversight in the war. Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq […]
It has been almost a year since I first mentioned Bunnatine Greenhouse. She was the top procurement officer for the Army Corp of Engineers and was in charge of the contracts for Iraq. Throughout her tenure she received the highest marks on her performance evaluations before being demoted for performance issues. The only issue that […]
A shocking blow to our way of life was discovered last year. That was when Bunnatine Greenhouse was fired from her job as the procurement officer for the Army Corp of Engineers. While the government tries to rationalize their decision by calling it “poor performance”, Mrs. Greenhouse’s employee files tell a different tale. Greenhouse was […]
When it comes to either supporting our troops or Cheney’s retirement then Cheney’s retirement will always win: Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused “mass sickness or death,” an internal company report concluded. The report, […]
Now wouldn’t this be interesting: Today Dubai Ports World announced it would “transfer fully the U.S. operations…to a United States entity.” This evening on the PBS News Hour, AEI scholar Norm Ornstein said that DP World was considering selling its U.S. operations to Halliburton: Hat tip to ThinkProgress for this.
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