OBAMA PENTAGON GIVES $500M ‘NO BID’ CONTRACT TO HALLIBURTON (LOL - The Left Will Blame it on Bush)
KBR Inc. was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, the Army said.
The Army announced its decision yesterday only hours after the Justice Department said it will pursue a lawsuit accusing the Houston-based company of taking kickbacks from two subcontractors on Iraq-related work. The Army also awarded the work to KBR over objections from members of Congress, who have pushed the Pentagon to seek bids for further logistics contracts.
The Justice Department said the government will join a suit filed by whistleblowers alleging that two freight-forwarding firms gave KBR transportation department employees kickbacks in the form of meals, drinks, sports tickets and golf outings.
“Defense contractors cannot take advantage of the ongoing war effort by accepting unlawful kickbacks,” Assistant Attorney General Tony West said in a statement.
Read the whole story at Business Week
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lol! what’s with this LEFT… RIGHT crap? evil is evil…the greed for money has no boundaries. so stop serperating us as a public and get it straight..Obama has made as much a douchey decision as the Bush-Cheney administration did. Fuck em all. There is a reason we have “the right to bear arms” ya know. Revolt!