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Titolo: Il lungo braccio di Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney and Halliburton
June 01, 2004
Email shows Cheney 'link' to Halliburton oil contract
By: Suzanne Goldenberg
Guardian, The
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The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, helped to steer through a huge contract
for the reconstruction of Iraq's oil industry on behalf of his old firm,
Halliburton, Time magazine reported yesterday.
The report, based on an internal Pentagon email, joins a steady stream of
allegations of cronyism involving Halliburton. Since the fall of Saddam
Hussein, the Houston company has won $17bn (Ł9bn) in contracts to rebuild
Iraq, far outstripping its competitors.
Mr Cheney, who ran Halliburton for five years before he became George Bush's
vice-president in 2000, has maintained that he severed all links to the
company when he entered public life.
However, Time said it had obtained an internal email from a Pentagon
official indicating that Mr Cheney's office had been intimately involved in
awarding a multibillion-dollar contract for the restoration of Iraqi oil.
The email, dated March 5 last year, said that Douglas Feith, the
undersecretary of defence for policy and an avid promoter of the war, had
approved a contract with Halliburton "contingent on informing WH [the White
House] tomorrow".
The email says that Mr Feith received authorisation for the Rio (Restore
Iraqi Oil) contract from the deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz. The
email, from an unidentified official with the Army Corps of Engineers, says:
"We anticipate no issues, since action has been coordinated with the VP's
office."
No other bids were sought, and Halliburton was awarded the contract.
A spokesman for Mr Cheney's office denied any connection to the contract.
"The vice-president and his office have played no role in government
contracting since he left private business to campaign for vice-president,"
in 1999, Kevin Kellems said.
But Mr Cheney has not severed his links with Halliburton. Last year, he
received $178,437 in deferred compensation from the company.
Reports suggest that the process of awarding contracts has changed under the
Bush administration. A report to the House of Representatives committee on
government reform last week noted that $107bn in contracts had been awarded
without open competition. Nearly three-quarters of those exclusive
arrangements - worth about $88bn - involved work in Iraq, the report said.
Halliburton has won a sizeable share of them.
Original Link: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1228598,00.html

he received $178,437 in deferred compensation from the company.
E questo che ca**o c'entra? Deve rinunciare ai suoi soldi? :)
-Stefano

 E questo che ca**o c'entra? Deve rinunciare ai suoi soldi? :)
#_Deveva ( gia` da tempo) rinunciare al suo link colla compagnia, per
interferenza di interessi; l'assegnazione di lavori pubblici senza gara
d'appalto si chiama clientelismo.
G.

clientelismo.
Se lo dici tu... :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

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...e dico anche che concentrare l'attenzione su un particolare effimero, per
evitare il punto centrale, e`un aggettivo derivato dal verbo:
trollu-trollis-trollit-trollatum-trollare
e come Fabio Massimo , detto il Temporeggiatore , il Dececere lo usa nei NG
per allungare i treads e mantenere il primato; se ppassi pe' RRoma
chissa`sitte cingono la testa d'alloro.... qui solo 'ova marce.
Trollona, Troiona ebbattona mia imperiale;
Messalina de Centoscelle e der Raccordo anulare;
La finiamo o nno`, co' 'sta moda de trollare?
Si la pianti 'na vorta, nunn'e`che teffai male.
G.   rrrr