http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/06/06/liz-cheney-caught-lying-on-abc-sunday/Liz Cheney’s Lie on ABC’s Sunday Show about Halliburton’s Fraud Charges Is Easily Disproved
Jon Ponder | Jun. 6, 2010
Liz Cheney seems to need to prove that she is every bit as amoral and shameless about lying as her father. On ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, she flat-out lied about Halliburton, the company her father ran before he appointed himself vice president. In a back and forth with Arianna Huffington about Halliburton’s role in the Gulf Disaster — it appears likely that Halliburton’s bungling caused the explosion — Cheney flatly contradicted Huffington’s assertion that Halliburton had ever been charged with fraud by the U.S. government...
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Here’s a contemporaneous report on Halliburton’s guilty plea — Bloomberg News, February 12, 2009:
HOUSTON – KBR Inc. and its former parent, Halliburton Co., agreed to pay $579 million to resolve US criminal and regulatory charges that the engineering company paid bribes totaling more than $180 million to Nigerian officials to win more than $6 billion in contracts to build a liquefied natural gas project in that country.
Andrew Farley, KBR’s general counsel, entered a guilty plea yesterday in federal court in Houston on behalf of the Houston-based company to conspiracy and to violating the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and agreed to a $402 million fine.
Separately, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Halliburton and KBR would pay $177 million in forfeited profits to settle civil bribery allegations without admitting wrongdoing.
KBR also pledged at a federal court hearing to hire an independent monitor to review its internal controls and record keeping for three years.
Earlier this year, the federal government also sued Halliburton over more than $100 million in alleged invoice padding:
A 2004 GAO investigation into Halliburton’s contract to provide essential services to the troops in Iraq “found significant problems in almost every area, including ineffective planning, inadequate cost control, insufficient training of contract management officials, and a pattern of recurring problems with controlling costs, meeting schedules, documenting purchases, and overseeing subcontractors.”
Just last month, the Justice Department brought a civil fraud suit against KBR, alleging that it charged the government for unauthorized security services in Iraq. “In 2007 and 2008, the Defense Department disapproved $103.4 million paid to KBR under LOGCAP III for unauthorized security services,” Reuters reported.
Sadly, it simply doesn’t matter when lies like this one from Cheney are uncovered. In fact, the more controversial she is, the more demand she has among segment producers for shows like ABC’s “This Week.” And since there’s no real-time fact checking on these shows, she’ll always be glad to appear.
The relationship between the political shows and their need for ratings and Republican propagandists like Cheney who need platforms where their disinformation is never seriously challenged is symbiotic, and it is doing serious damage to the American political system.Media Matters' fact check:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201006060011
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