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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (102378)	9/8/2005 1:08:35 AM
From: LowtherAcademy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

thought you were kidding when you said that Hal would be awarded the contract for clean up. Geeze, I'm such an innocent! The Houston Chronicle has reported that Houston-based Halliburton has been hired by the Navy to begin post-hurricane repairs on three naval bases in Mississippi—then they will move into New Orleans to begin assessing storm damage before repairs are made: Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so. KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees. KBR has been under intense scrutiny for receiving a five-year, no-bid contract to restore Iraqi oil fields shortly before the war began in 2003. Even more recently, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse was demoted from her post as the top Army Corps of Engineers procurement official in what appears as retaliation for noting her objections to the way in which the Iraq contract was awarded. Three congressional Democrats have called for an investigation into the demotion.