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Saturday, November 19, 2005

KBR are the culprits
A whistleblower is claiming Iraq contracts have been rife with fraud and waste. Guess which subcontractor for Halliburton is being fingered by our whistleblowing fried? Why, Kellog, Brown and Root of course. What is with these guys? Why don't we just round them all up and indict them all at once to save time? Has any other business been so roundly condemned in the press for unethical behavior since big tobacco? They might even have big tobacco beat.

Greenhouse has testified that the contracts awarded to Kellogg, Brown and Root represent "the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career."
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One example given was the torching of new $85,000 trucks because of easily reparable deficiencies, such flat tires and clogged fuel pumps.

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