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Army demotes Halliburton critic
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Co. for work in Iraq has been demoted for what the Army called poor job performance.
The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military procurement for 20 years and for the last several years had been the chief overseer of contracts at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that has managed much of the reconstruction work in Iraq.
The demotion, which occurred Saturday, removes her from the elite Senior Executive Service and reassigns her to a lesser job in the corps' civil works division.
Greenhouse's attorney, Michael Kohn, called the action an "obvious reprisal" for the strong objections she raised in 2003 to a series of Corps decisions involving the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, which has garnered more than $10 billion for work in Iraq.
Dick Cheney led Texas-based Halliburton before he became vice president.
Carol Sanders, spokeswoman for the Army Corps of Engineers, said Sunday that the personnel action against Greenhouse had been approved by the Department of the Army. In a memorandum dated June 3, 2005, as the demotion was being arranged, the commander of the corps, Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, said the administrative record "clearly demonstrates that Ms. Greenhouse's removal from the SES is based on her performance and not in retaliation for any disclosures of alleged improprieties that she may have made."
Known as a stickler for the rules on competition, Greenhouse initially received stellar performance ratings, Kohn said. But her reviews became negative at roughly the time she began objecting to decisions she saw as improperly favoring Kellogg Brown & Root, he said.
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I suppose that it's possible that her performance could have slipped, at exactly the same time as she began critsizing the Halliburton subsidiary. Still...if it looks like a duck...
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