Sometimes the stories are just too bizarre. So bizarre in fact, that if they were not documented somewhere, no one would ever believe them. It's clearer and clearer that the 1600 Crew marched 1500 or more Americans, and more to come, off to their death to enrich their corporate buddies. After all, why were the weapons facilities (like Al Qaa-Qaa) left unguarded while Cheneyburton and their ilk were allowed to get away with this malfeasance?
Pentagon auditors found more than $100 million in questionable costs in one section of a massive, no-bid Halliburton Co. contract for delivering fuel to Iraq, according to a summary of their report released yesterday by congressional Democrats.
The audit faulted Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. for providing cost data that did not match its accounting records, and for failing to negotiate lower prices for fuel from a Kuwaiti supplier. The audit also described as "illogical" a case in which KBR reported it had purchased liquefied gas for $82,100, and then spent $27.5 million to transport it.
Oh, but even more amazing:
The audit summary, written in October 2004 but withheld from public release ...
Because information like this released just days before the election and in the midst of the debates might have made Preznit Scripted Questions look like, well, a facilitator of his CROOK buddies.
posted by Jo Fish on 03.16.05 at 12:38 AM
Comments:
Who gets the medal of thiefdom for this?
Call it a "Bush button".
posted by: Mr. Murder on 03.16.05 at 09:02 AM [permalink]
And yet another example of how we are being screwed by not having an independent press with the balls to investigate things. And why media consolidation is choking the flow of information, destroying competition in the news business, and treating us all like...wait, what? They announced the Scott Peterson sentence? Oh. Gotta run.
remind me again why clinton was impeached. was it anywhere near as egregious as the shit these slimeballs are involved in?
posted by: the drunken cheerleader on 03.16.05 at 05:46 PM [permalink]
I wish Dick Durbinn could get some traction for re-convening the Truman Commission on War Profiteering, but I guess the Repugs will never let it happen.
I thought it was shameful when the spent $70 million to investigate Bubba's bj. Then they "lost" 9 billion in Iraq. And nobody is clammoring for an investigation? (She shakes her head in dismay.) I just don't get it.
I like your blog a lot & link to it on mine, just stopped by to say hi.
I think Clark knows how to deal with CROOKS like ShrubCo, CheneyBurton et al.
posted by: Nina on 03.17.05 at 06:48 PM [permalink]
I'd like to be able to blame the Neocons for all this, but I just can't. I must, as usual, place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the American populace. Americans have no attention span. The republicans decided to impeach Clinton, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans made it abundantly clear that they did want it to happen. Yet the Repubs went ahead and tried it anyway, even though their employers(us) told them not to. And do you know what happened in response to this? The majority of the bastards got re-elected.
We get the same crap about the electoral college. Every four years, I hear a plethora of people complain about the Electoral College, as if all the problems inherent in it are news. Four years later, I hear the same people make the same complaints. Americans have thirty second attention spans.
And people wonder why I've lost all faith in my fellow Americans.
Hell I was trying to get my University Station to let us make a report on KBR and Bechtel during Desert Storm's build-up.
Cheney had his paws all over it, so did papa Bush.
The media 's been bought and sold for a long while now. There was a serious effort to stymie online flow of info in its early days to maintain the stranglehold on the truth.
Long gone now, oh wait, some suits are knocking on the door. Asking about FEC regulations... be back in 3 to 5.(/orwell)
posted by: Mr. Murder on 03.21.05 at 04:39 PM [permalink]
