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By Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 9:57 a.m. ET July 01, 2004The Pentagon has already awarded Halliburton Co., the controversial military contractor, deals worth up to $18 billion for its work in Iraq. But now former Halliburton insiders have come forward with new allegations of massive waste of taxpayer money.
Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain who worked for Halliburton, was so upset by attacks on the company she e-mailed the CEO in December with a strategy on how to fight the "political slurs." But today, after five months inside Halliburton's operation in Kuwait, deYoung has radically changed her opinion. "It’s just a gravy train," she said.
DeYoung audited accounts for Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR. She claims there was no effort to hold down costs because all costs were passed on directly to taxpayers. She repeatedly complained to superiors of waste and fraud. The company's response, according to deYoung was: "We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody’s going to care."
DeYoung produced documents detailing alleged waste even on routine services: $50,000 a month for soda, at $45 a case; $1 million a month to clean clothes — or $100 for each 15-pound bag of laundry.
"That money could have been used to take care of soldiers," she said.
DeYoung also claims people were paid to do nothing. Mike West says he was one of them. Paid $82,000 a year to be a labor foreman in Iraq, West claims he never had any laborers to supervise. "They said just log 12 hours a day and walk around and look busy," he said. "OK, so we did."
Both deYoung and West have since left the company. Pentagon documents obtained by NBC News support the whistleblowers' charges. In December auditors complained of Halliburton's "serious deficiencies," including "lack of cost control and cost consciousness." Some examples:
Purchase of hundreds of high-end SUVs and pickups, loaded with options like CD players, which "most KBR employees do not need."
"Duplication ... and gold-plating" in purchases of computers and high-tech equipment.
Halliburton employees living in 5-star hotels.
The company declined an interview but suggests in an e-mail to NBC News that critics are politically motivated: "When Halliburton succeeds, Iraq progresses. Sadly, a few people don't want either of those results."
Halliburton also said the soda problem has been "corrected," and the laundry charges are being investigated, but insists it's "absolutely not true" the company is cavalier about taxpayer money.
Whistleblower deYoung thinks the problem is obvious. "They're using the war as an excuse, but it's not the war," she said. "It was very bad management."
Pentagon auditors apparently agree. They're withholding $186 million from the company and threatening to hold back even more unless Halliburton corrects the problems.
"a pitiful person of small mental stature, who cannot construct an intelligible argument and is therefore condemned to the cutting and pasting of the arguments of others"
Originally posted by JR@Jul 10 2004, 02:10 PM "Meni" is ancient Greek for
"a pitiful person of small mental stature, who cannot contruct an intelligible argument and is therefore condemned to the cutting and pasting of the arguments of others"
well JR hard to argue better than the truth no matter how you CUT (or Paste) it haha LOL
Originally posted by JR@Jul 10 2004, 05:10 PM "Meni" is ancient Greek for
"a pitiful person of small mental stature, who cannot contruct an intelligible argument and is therefore condemned to the cutting and pasting of the arguments of others"
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Originally posted by JR@Jul 10 2004, 05:10 PM "Meni" is ancient Greek for
"a pitiful person of small mental stature, who cannot construct an intelligible argument and is therefore condemned to the cutting and pasting of the arguments of others"
JR
i pasted a article
read it
ok? www.askmeni.com
if you want no copy and paste
fuck face
stern
i hated bush before the stern tirade you idiot
the avalanche of articles bashing bush/cheney is here
thank god
wake up
JR did you read the article
gofuckyourself
I mean, has anybody from Haliburton done
like bad things or
something really wrong?
Gotten blowjobs from interns or something?
Would Dick Cheney lie to you?
Get with the Oprano program.
They are not evildoers.
Haliburton good.
Liberalactivistjudges bad.
parasiticaltriallawyers bad
(especially this week).
People who criticize Haliburton
don't want brown people to have
deeeeeemooooooooocracyyyyyyyyy.
They are americahaters.
They hate freeeeeeedom.
Halibton loves freeeeeeeeedom.
Don't let Stern teach you what to parrot.
Stern is probably an evildoer.
Stern probably likes
liberalactivistjudges and parasitcaltriallawyers.
Parrot the latest RNC story of the week.
Be Opranosmart.
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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Jul 10 2004, 04:34 PM Meni ... don't worry, be happy.
I mean, has anybody from Haliburton done
like bad things or
something really wrong?
Gotten blowjobs from interns or something?
Would Dick Cheney lie to you?
Get with the Oprano program.
They are not evildoers.
Haliburton good.
Liberalactivistjudges bad.
parasiticaltriallawyers bad
(especially this week).
People who criticize Haliburton
don't want brown people to have
deeeeeemooooooooocracyyyyyyyyy.
They are americahaters.
They hate freeeeeeedom.
Halibton loves freeeeeeeeedom.
Don't let Stern teach you what to parrot.
Stern is probably an evildoer.
Stern probably likes
liberalactivistjudges and parasitcaltriallawyers.
Parrot the latest RNC story of the week.
Be Opranosmart.
PD, no one is defending Bush, Halliburton, Jesus Christ, McDonalds, Pepsi, Nair, Chia Pets or the metric system.
In fact, i think you of all people would recognize and appreciate the fact that almost everyone here is backing away from Bush and his policies and even the Republican party.
We just make fun of Meni because he is a babbling idiot who has a difficult time putting together a coherent and complete sentence while trying to convince people that he has something important to say.
It's like watching a retard who got his dick caught in his zipper... he is running around the living room, screaming at the top of his lungs, arms arms are flailing and he is trying to communicate something.. but people can't stop laughing long enough to be bothered to try to figure out what he is trying to say... or they are just so annoyed with his constant idiocy that they just don't care.
Originally posted by JR@Jul 10 2004, 04:16 PM no... since you don't have any opinions that are not Howard Sterns, we call you a parrot.
now shut the fuck up
Parrot!
That article was a segment on the NBC nightly news, abc new ans cbs news. I also read it online, in more than one location. I doubt its illegitmimacy.
At least they didnt have a statue of david with vodka coming out of his "works" or is that next?
Haliburton is dirty when it comes to the war. thats haliburton, not necessarily camp bush, although they did approve the contracts without a bidding schedule.
look for cheney to step down sometme in the next month, he could kill bush's chances.
McCain would be a big dose of vitamin E for the republican campaign, but seeing as he hates bush, i dont see that working.
Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Jul 10 2004, 04:34 PM Meni ... don't worry, be happy.
I mean, has anybody from Haliburton done
like bad things or
something really wrong?
Gotten blowjobs from interns or something?
Would Dick Cheney lie to you?
Get with the Oprano program.
They are not evildoers.
Haliburton good.
Liberalactivistjudges bad.
parasiticaltriallawyers bad
(especially this week).
People who criticize Haliburton
don't want brown people to have
deeeeeemooooooooocracyyyyyyyyy.
They are americahaters.
They hate freeeeeeedom.
Halibton loves freeeeeeeeedom.
Don't let Stern teach you what to parrot.
Stern is probably an evildoer.
Stern probably likes
liberalactivistjudges and parasitcaltriallawyers.
Parrot the latest RNC story of the week.
Be Opranosmart.
what gets me
is the short sentence structure
its like reading lyrics
off the sleeve of a cd
can we get back to the facts please
halliburton fucking US? ok here is a long sentence, discuss how haliburton is fucking us, the reason halliburton can fuck us.... discuss, okay
and when yoll call me an idiot and you don't know me, you try to limit what I have to say, i say halliburton is fucking us, i deliver an article to back me, and i'm called an idiot. the beauty of message boards
Originally posted by Giorgio_Xo@Jul 11 2004, 11:14 PM I am convined
that Meni
types in iambic pentameter.
I was trying to use it to break the Klingon code!
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Originally posted by JR@Jul 10 2004, 07:16 PM no... since you don't have any opinions that are not Howard Sterns, we call you a parrot.
now shut the fuck up
Parrot!
Hey, Quit insulting Parrots - you fucking fuckers (believe that is a Scarlet Macaw in the picture)
Damn it!!!! I demand in the name of the left and the right (and all other nuts) that Meni no longer be compared with Parrots but instead with rutabagas
I have 2 parrots, one of whom converses with my 3 year old son daily and I hold their conversations and opinions in the highest regard (neither care about Politics and both are Ravens fans)
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I've wondered about the way meni posts for years ... until the other day when i started using trillian instead of icq and everytime you hit 'enter' it sends the message.
I noticed I went from writing out a long message and hitting send to sending 10 messages in a row.
Isn't it funny how the software we use forms our online communication habits so strongly we use them permanently ...
Try writing on a piece of paper ... WOAH! I forget almost everything I learned in school about sentence structure and gramma (oops, grammer)
on the politics issue ... BILL CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT!!
Originally posted by Meni@Jul 11 2004, 12:19 PM can we get back to the facts please
halliburton fucking US? ok here is a long sentence, discuss how haliburton is fucking us, the reason halliburton can fuck us.... discuss, okay
and when yoll call me an idiot and you don't know me, you try to limit what I have to say, i say halliburton is fucking us, i deliver an article to back me, and i'm called an idiot. the beauty of message boards
we don't know you, but impressions your posts and sentense structures give are undeniable-
idiotic moron and JR summed it up the best with his "retard with dick caught in the zipper" example
;-)))
Originally posted by cj@Jul 12 2004, 02:50 AM Try writing on a piece of paper ... WOAH! I forget almost everything I learned in school about sentence structure and gramma (oops, grammer)
Honestly, Meni - I think the entire planet knows that Haliburton is crooked as hell at this point.... Your posts aren't really revealing anything new.... And while I can understand your want to discuss it, I think most here just don't see the point. I don't.
Yes they are crooks and COCKSUCKERS. Yes our government allowed them to rob the taxbase. Yes they are Bush/Cheney's cronies. SO? Our fuming about it on an adult messageboard will do very little to affect the situation. All it will do is allow bloodpressures to rise and everyone to say "Man, that really sucks that they got away with that!" or "yeah, what he said!". So, I just said it for us - now nobody has to get all worked up over it.
Chill bro. Politics and Politicans aren't worth your energy. I gave up on them long ago, when they killed Caesar.
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Originally posted by Meni@Jul 12 2004, 04:14 PM well Edd, oprano being the only pro bush board
fires me up
just like i get fired up to lick serge's ball cheese
Reminds me of that bartender at the "Bada Bing" talking politics...
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Originally posted by Meni@Jul 12 2004, 04:14 PM well Edd, oprano being the only pro bush board
fires me up
just like i get fired up to lick serge's ball cheese
First I think if you ran a poll of everyone, Oprano would no be considered a Bush board.
If anything, Oprano just not rabidly anti-Bush. Peopel don't get caught into the hysteria the flaming liberals and euroTrash do.
The grass is not always greener on the other side.
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