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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (2466)	2/14/2004 5:08:22 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

BUSH HIRING CRIMINALS: Re: Senator Leahy introduced a provision that would have prevented corporate war profiteering..... it got deleted during the conference committee. Oh, heavens. It gets worse than that. Several years ago, Halliburton was caught overbilling for electrical work on a California military base. They were convicted of a crime (as a corporation). Federal law at the time forbid the Department of Defense from contracting with criminally convicted entities. Precluding Halliburton from bidding on new contracts with DoD. So what did Bush do? He slipped a special provision into the FY 2002 DoD budget removing the language preventing contracting with a criminal organization from the Federal Register. And the Democrats whimpered and simpered, but didn't do a damn thing about it. So as things stand today, it's perfectly legal for the DoD to hire criminals. Neat, huh? :')