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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I think the facts will show Haliburton was not profiteering.
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The Defense Contracting Auditing Agency (DCAA), the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) and the Government Accoutabilibty Office have indepedently identified more than $1 billion in questionable Halliburton (and subsidiarty KBR) overcharges in Iraq.
The DCAA on several occasions recommended withholding payments on some Halliburton contracts pending support documentation from Halliburton. Rumsfeld ignored the DCAA recommendations.
In Congressional oversight hearings of Iraq reconstruction funding abuses over the last three years, the Repub majority repeatedly refused the request by Dems on the committees to subpoena Halliburton for supporting documents. The latest request was last Feb (
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Other DCAA audits:
http://reform.house.gov/search/resul...ts+halliburton
Ace....perhaps you are right (although the audits suggest otherwise), and now that we finally have a Congress that takes its oversight responbilities seriously, we shall see in the coming months.