Anyone notice that the media never mentions Halliburton's role in this oil mess any more?

That ended about a week ago.

Must be nice to have Cheney as an employee.

Don

when litigation starts regarding charges of negligence as will Transocean's.

it's time to pray.

It seems increasingly likely that when investigators determine the precise cause of the oil-rig explosion that threatens to poison huge swaths of the Gulf of Mexico, what they'll conclude is that something went catastrophically wrong with the work done by Halliburton.

BP owns the well, and Transocean Ltd. owns the drilling rig, but Halliburton was the subcontractor in charge of sealing the bottom of the well...

The Wall Street Journal reported that a 2007 study "found that cementing was a factor in 18 of 39 well blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico over a 14-year period. That was the single largest factor, ahead of equipment failure and pipe failure."

Meanwhile, Halliburton continues to actively market its deepwater services. Its Web site states that: "Halliburton technologies have played a key role in the success of many deepwater Gulf of Mexico wells."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/11/halliburtons-return-oil-s_n_571308.html

In part of the book he channels the inestimably great Tim Russert who meticulously probes Halliburton from Heaven.