Halliburton Fraud Being Exposed: Are you paying attention, America?

Halliburton, the company that bought Dick Chaney the office of Vice President, is now being exposed in Congress. Hearings are currently underway in which former employees, government officials, and other interested parties are beginning to testify to the extent to which Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers and our servicemen and women in Iraq.

One former K.B.R. official (K.B.R. is a Halliburton subsidiary) told of regularly billing the government for 20,000 meals served per day when in fact they were only serving 10,000 and in fact at least some of these meals were out of date and therefore dangerous to the health of the soldiers who were eating them.

Halliburton tried to pass off such practices as pure accident in accounting, but the former official testified to the fact that his managers knew all to well what was going on and threatened to have him transfered into harms way as a means of keeping him and others like him quiet.

For more details, see today's New York Times article by Erik Eckholm. The hearings are being shown on C-SPAN as well.