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Raped in Iraq: The Halliburton Victims
Jamie Leigh Jones and Tracy Barker both "said they were raped or sexually assaulted while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq." Parts of Jones' rape kit went missing after it was "turned over to Halliburton/KBR security guards." Meanwhile the "Justice Department declined prosecution even after State Department investigators recommended it, in the case of the "assault and attempted rape" of Barker by a State Department official.
Tags: rape; sexual assault; cover up; State Department; Halliburton; Iraq; women; gang rape
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War Profiteers?
This CBS 60 Minutes segment uses the story of two men with no experience who were awarded multi-million dollar contracts from the Provisional Coalition Authority in Iraq as a lead into the allegations of war profiteering by larger companies like Halliburton and Kellogg, Brown and Root.
Tags: Iraq; Afghanistan; Middle East; Green Zone; corruption; graft; fraud; kickbacks; bribery; waste; Army Rangers; breach of contract; Custer Battles; Scott Custer; Mike Battles; Ambassador Paul Bremer; Colonel Richard Ballard; Frank Willis; procurement; war profiteers; Coalition Provisional Authority; Coalition Authority's Ministry of Finance; Colonel Philip Wilkinson; Robert Isaacson; Cayman Islands; Justice Department; whistleblower lawsuit; Halliburton; Kellogg, Brown and Root; KBR; Senator Byron Dorgan; Special Inspector General Stuart Bowen;
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Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
The US has spent more money on rebuilding Iraq than it has ever spent on any foreign country, yet it has failed to rebuild it. "The book chronicles poor planning, massive corruption by both Iraqi and American officials, a complete lack of accountability and the rise of the private security industry."
Tags: Iraq; money; rebuilding; Halliburton; Bush administration
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Pipeline to Peril
The story exposed how the US government finances and benefits from practices it also condemns, namely human trafficking, and how those practices feed an undocumented and illicit pipeline of cheap labor to America's privatized military-support operations in Iraq.
Tags: human trafficking; War on Terrorism; War in Iraq; Halliburton; FOIA; undocumented workers
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Doing Business with the Enemy
60 Minutes discovered that companies like Halliburton and General Electric that pension plans and mutual funds invest in heavily were doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
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Halliburton and the Awarding of Contracts in Iraq
The Pentagon's routine issuance of single-source contracts in Iraq has created a financial bonanza for hundreds of American-based contractors. One of the greatest beneficiaries has been Halliburton. Myers and her team repeatedly exposed some of the deals made at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Tags: Halliburton; contracting in Iraq
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Outsourcing the Pentagon
This study examined $900 billion in defense contracts in the six fiscal years between 1998 and 2003. After assembling Pentagon databases into a single table of 2.2 million records, the study identified and profiled defense department contractors who received at least $100 million between fiscal years 1998 and 2003. Among other findings, no-bid contracts accounted for 40 percent of the Pentagon's business in that time period.
Tags: Military; Defense spending; government contracts; Pentagon; Halliburton; Science Applications International; PACs; the Carlyle Group; CAR
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A Changing Landscape
"These stories provide a portrait of the Bush environmental policies and the largely hidden political process that produced them. They also provide a window into the secretive administration's domestic-policymaking and its impact in the West and elsewhere. The reporters penetrated the federal bureaucracy to show how the White House and political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department manipulated science, circumvented the law and marginalized or steamrolled career employees. These reports detail how, in the process, the administration adopted regulations or policies that benefited its corporate patrons at the expense of public health and the environment." Also included is an update from February, 2005, that relates the results of a study done by Nikki Tinsley, the EPA's inspector general, at the request of seven senators who read the LA Times original series. Tinsley's report confirmed the LA Times findings.
Tags: environment; pollution; mercury; national Forrest; oil drilling; Halliburton; Clean Air Act; Clear Skies initiative; EPA
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"All in the Family"
This investigation showed how the military contracting process in Iraq is replete with cozy relationships between the Pentagon and industry that raise potential conflicts of interest. The Army Corps of Engineers awarded a secretive $7 billion no-bid contract for oil field services in Iraq to Halliburton, whose chief Washington lobbyist was a top official at the corps and whose former CEO is Vice President Dick Cheney. Furthermore, nine members of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon, have financial ties to companies that won billions of dollars in defense contracts.
Tags: Halliburton; Iraq; Gulf War; oil industry; Army Corps of Engineers; Defense Department; contracts; political connections; Pentagon
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The $87 Billion Money Pit
Newsweek looks at the costs that the Bush government will incur for the rebuilding of Iraq. The reporters uncovered that the government gave most of the contracts to a company named Halliburton which is led by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Tags: Bush Government; VIce President Dick Cheney; Halliburton