Halliburton: Your Tax Dollars at Work

One of the things to remember about the Bush Administration is that there are so many things going on these days of a questionable nature that old stories have a way of fading. Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton, is still in the news for its seemingly favored treatment:

Halliburton got bonuses for overbilling taxpayers by $169 million
2 Dec. 2005

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- The Army Corps of Engineers paid profits and bonuses to Halliburton for oil transport and repair in Iraq even though the Pentagon's own auditors declared $169 million in costs for the work to be "unreasonable" and "unsupported," a congressman disclosed today.

In a letter to the chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) requested hearings on how Halliburton could have been awarded $38 million in bonus payments for contract work plagued by overcharges.

It seems those favored by Bush can do no wrong. Some people call it a pattern.