By Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post Staff Writer
As the government prepared for war in Iraq (news - web sites) in the fall of 2002, a senior political appointee in the Defense Department chose oil services giant Halliburton Co. to secretly plan how to repair Iraqi oil fields, and then briefed Vice President Cheney's chief of staff and other White House officials about the sole-source contract before it was granted.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said the new details about the $1.8 million contract, disclosed last week in a Pentagon (news - web sites) briefing for congressional staff members, raise new questions about whether the vice president or his office played any role in decisions to give what became billions of dollars worth of government business to Halliburton, where Cheney was chief executive from 1995 to 2000.
sole-source contract - do you know what that means, NO competition, NO chance for anyone else to get the contract.
People thats YOUR money BILLIONS given to Cheney AS A GIFT!
As the government prepared for war in Iraq (news - web sites) in the fall of 2002, a senior political appointee in the Defense Department chose oil services giant Halliburton Co. to secretly plan how to repair Iraqi oil fields, and then briefed Vice President Cheney's chief of staff and other White House officials about the sole-source contract before it was granted.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said the new details about the $1.8 million contract, disclosed last week in a Pentagon (news - web sites) briefing for congressional staff members, raise new questions about whether the vice president or his office played any role in decisions to give what became billions of dollars worth of government business to Halliburton, where Cheney was chief executive from 1995 to 2000.
sole-source contract - do you know what that means, NO competition, NO chance for anyone else to get the contract.
People thats YOUR money BILLIONS given to Cheney AS A GIFT!
