Re: stuff_stuff: followup on Bechtel vs Halliburton

Les Cargill wrote:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3D91431F93BA3575BC0A9659C8B63


"But in the last month, the corps, which is overseeing the reconstruction efforts, has specified a timetable for the work that effectively means that the value of any contract companies other than Halliburton could win would be worth only about $176 million,..."

I'd apparently completely missed all this in 2003, or had forgotten.

I do not know that having an aggressive timetable is grounds
for suspicion or not. I also don't know how it works with
Cheney being a former Halliburton exec and an elected official,
WRT to Federal conflict of interest law.

Don't know that anybody is pursuing it, so it's probably a nonissue.

Of course it is a 'nonissue'.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/
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