FBI Interviews Halliburton Whistleblower

WASHINGTON - FBI (news - web sites) agents recently spent a day interviewing the Army contracting officer who raised concerns that the Pentagon (news - web sites) improperly awarded contracts without competition to Halliburton Co., Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s former company.

The Army Corps of Engineers contract officer, Bunnatine Greenhouse, was interviewed last week and now is gathering documents requested by the FBI and Army criminal investigators, her lawyer said Wednesday.


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The Associated Press reported last month that the FBI had expanded a criminal probe into allegations Halliburton overcharged the government for fuel, adding questions about whether the Bush administration had improperly awarded business without bidding to Halliburton in Iraq (news - web sites) and the Balkans.

Both the company and the administration deny any wrongdoing. Cheney's office has said he has had nothing to do with the government contracts that have gone to the company, which he headed in the 1990s until joining President Bush (news - web sites) on the 2000 Republican ticket.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=3&u=/ap/20041124/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/halliburton_fbi

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though it may have an impeachment attached to it

Sorry, my page didn't refresh and I didn't see your post on the story! Please forgive.

http://www.crooksandliars.com / has a video clip from an interview Chris Matthews did with Bunnatine Greenhouse!

All we need is a whistleblower at Diebold!

that the Bush administration has awarded business to in in Iraq and the Balkans.

FOR EXAMPLE:
Blackwater USA, a private security firm currently working in Iraq, founded by Erik D. Prince, brother of Betsy DeVos, current chair of the Michigan GOP, and longtime GOP operative.

Her husband is Richard DeVos, co-founder of the Amway Corp. (interesting background and connections in itself) with Jay Van Andel (Founder of Van Andel Research Institute--more interesting stuff...)

Businesses owned by DeVos and Van Andel were clients of CyberNET Group of Grand Rapids Mich, which was raided last week by the FBI. According to the news report "Some of the companies clients include DeVos Place and the Van Andel Arena, whose Web sites were down Wednesday during the raid."

Regarding Richard DeVos:
33º Freemason- CNP Executive Committee (1984-85); CNP Senior Executive Committee (1986-88, 1990-93). Founder
of Amway Corporation; Templeton Foundation - judge for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion; Bd. of Directors of (33º Mason)
Robert Schuller Ministries, Newcomen Society, Trustee of (33º Mason) Gerald R. Ford Foundation, Round Table. Served on Chairman's
Council of the Conservative Caucus. In an undated Amway brochure titled 3 Decades of Caring: AMWAY, Amway announced that it had
launched "a new, five year corporate sponsorship: the Aspen Global Change Institute. Amway's partners in this exciting new project
include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United Nations Environment Programme,(etc)