CORRUPTION -- HALLIBURTON PLAYS IT FAST AND LOOSE WITH YOUR MONEY

www.progressreport.org

3/15/2005

CORRUPTION -- HALLIBURTON PLAYS IT FAST AND LOOSE WITH YOUR MONEY:
Halliburton continues to squander hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars
in Iraq due to graft and mismanagement. A Pentagon audit "found more
than $100 million in questionable costs in one section of a massive,
no-bid Halliburton Co. contract for delivering fuel to Iraq." In one case,
a Halliburton subsidiary " reported it had purchased liquefied gas for
$82,100, and then spent $27.5 million to transport it
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35138-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_politics)
."

And that's not all. Eight other audits into possible wrongdoing by Halliburton
subsidiaries were completed in October 2004. The audits documenting the questionable charges were withheld from Congress by the administration for months.

Want to know more? Too bad. The White House is hiding the reports from public view
(http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/politics/15halliburton.html) , despite repeated requests from Congress for details.