Senator Seeks Halliburton Special Counsel

Senator Seeks Halliburton Special Counsel

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By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) should appoint a special counsel to investigate whether Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) helped his old firm Halliburton get lucrative deals in Iraq (news - web sites), a senior Democratic senator said on Monday.


The demand by New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg follows questions over the weekend on whether Cheney and his staff played any role in Pentagon (news - web sites) decisions to give billions of dollars of work in Iraq to Halliburton, run by Cheney from 1995-2000.


"This, in my view, could be a major government scandal," Lautenberg told reporters in a conference call.


Halliburton has been criticized by the Democrats who want to know whether Cheney tried to influence government officials into giving work to the Texas-based firm, the U.S. military's biggest contractor in Iraq.

more... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=8&u=/nm/20040614/pl_nm/iraq_halliburton_dc

as well. :fingerscrossed:

see this link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x622050

there were "independent councils" anymore? I though that law elapsed after what Ken Starr did. Wouldn't it now be a special procecutor like they had during the Nixon administration.

The Independent Council law was not renewed by congress

Keep raising a stink!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...to investigate whether Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) helped his old firm Halliburton get lucrative deals in Iraq

And does anybody doubt that the day Cheney walks out of office that he'll be given a huge consulting contract with Haliburton; one where he never has to show up for work?

The regime is going to let the Snarling Reptile go down, hoping it will take the heat off bu$h.

:freak:
dbt

at the hip.

Spiro looks like a sick whore next to cheney, 'eh?

They've turned Democrats and every sane person in this world for that matter into verbal snipers, picking them off one by one. Bush will not escape!

Nixon was going down hard, and Agnew was a petty criminal in his own right (took bribes his whole political career and it was in all the papers). They had to get rid of him before getting rid of Tricky Dick.

Gerald Ford was vetted by a committee of his peers who begged him to look into his soul and make sure he was clean before they put him forward. He was and they did.

A posse of Republicans went to Nixon and told him he really had to resign for the good of the nation. Either that or be impeached and tossed out on his ear.

SIGH. Those were the days of bi-partisanship in the Congress. Makes me nostalgic, it does. The Republican Party of 2004 has been long since hijacked and packed with too many wingnuts to make that a likely scenario on this go-round -- at least not anytime soon.

Cheney is more the president than Bush -- from the point of view of those who lust for power more than they love our nation, it would be a disaster to let him go. He's more or less rational. What in gods' name would Bush do without Cheney? Would Bush -- and Rove for that matter -- go completely berserk with power?

From the point of view of the rest of us, dumping Cheney would count as A Good Start. Scary, for the reasons given above. But still, it would be an admission of guilt that could open the floodgates of inquiry into widespread criminal activity. If the Republicans in Congress would start looking out for the good of the nation instead of the success of the power of ideology...

Hekate
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Halliburton Co., the world's largest oilfield-services company, was ``properly awarded'' its open- ended contract to repair the Iraqi oil infrastructure, the U.S. General Accounting Office concluded in a report issued today.
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The issue will receive further scrutiny on Tuesday at a hearing of the House Government Reform Committee, where GAO Comptroller General David Walker will testify.
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Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Representative Henry Waxman of California and other Democrats have said Houston-based Halliburton was favored by the U.S. government because Vice President Dick Cheney was chief executive there from 1995 to 2000. Lautenberg called on Attorney General John Ashcroft to name a special prosecutor to investigate ties between Halliburton and the Bush administration.
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A report submitted to Congress by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which is running Iraq until the June 30 transition to an interim Iraqi government, showed that of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for non-military reconstruction in Iraq, only $2.3 billion had been spent through March 24.
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A report submitted to Congress by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which is running Iraq until the June 30 transition to an interim Iraqi government, showed that of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for non-military reconstruction in Iraq, only $2.3 billion had been spent through March 24.

:kick:

Fresh concern has been raised that the United States vice-president, Dick Cheney, may have played a role in the decision to award his former company Halliburton a $7-billion contract for work in postwar Iraq.

According to a congressional investigation, Cheney's top aide, Lewis Libby, was involved in high-level talks in October 2002 which led to the firm securing the contract.

Although there is no evidence that Cheney wielded any influence, the inquiry's findings appear to undermine claims that he had no prior knowledge of the contract.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=117301

of scandal and proof that crashcart is a criminal liar and STILL not a word about this story in my local waste of trees they refer to as a "newspaper".

Will ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NEVER HAPPEN.

100% certainty.

It's easy to be that certain, when dealing with Nazis, Commies, or Busheviks.