Docs suggest Army lied about Cheney involvement in Halliburton contract

Docs suggest Army lied about Cheney involvement in Halliburton contract

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday June 15, 2006

New documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group suggest that the United States Army Corp of Engineers may have publicly lied regarding the involvement of the Vice President's office in awarding a 2003 multi-billion dollar, no-bid contract to Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton, RAW STORY has learned.

RAW STORY has obtained a copy of the new documents, which were obtained by the group under a court order from a federal judge after the Corps refused to turn them over.

The Corps could not immediately be reached for comment.

Among the 100 pages of newly-obtained documents is an 2003 email in which Carol Sanders of the Army Corps writes, "Mr. Robert Andersen, Chief Counsel, USACE, participated in a 60 Minutes interview today in New York regarding the sole source award of the oil response contract to Kellogg, Brown and Root... was able to make many of the points we had planned."

Sanders subsequently provided sound bites from the interview, including, "There was no contact whatsoever (with the VP office)."



more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Documents_suggest_Army_lied_about_Cheney_0615.html

READ THE NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS HERE
http://judicialwatch.org/archive/2006/halliburton-docs.pdf
READ THE EARLIER 'VP' EMAIL HERE
http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2004/030503.pdf

Whaddya bet?

Those desks are highly symbolic for these guys.

on DU and dKos.

This story has literally hundreds of recommendations on dKos, and hardly even a comment here on DU.

Who knows why? Not I.

k&r


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/15/131745/385

It happens quite often...

Maybe its the bold headline at dKos -

Cheney COLD BUSTED For Corruption and Cronyism By Judge
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/15/131745/385

Lots of cool links at both sites

gets more involved with whatever story is playing out in the general media at the moment.

It's a wonderful world in which we have both.


Thanks for your many great posts, kpete.