By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of disabled veterans booed and jeered Republican House members on Tuesday for their budget proposal for veterans’ health care, which critics call inadequate to deal with the future needs of current troops.
Following testimony before a pair of congressional committees by officials from the Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, the crowd of more than 400 wounded and disabled veterans cheered House members who criticized the (...)
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400 Disabled Veterans Raise Hell At Congressional Hearings On VA Budget
12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Kucinich Demands Investigation Of Missing $9 Billion- Instead We Get An Investigation of Steroid Use
12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsWASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member on the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today demanded a broad investigation of the $9 billion in missing reconstruction funds in Iraq, including a criminal investigation and Congressional hearings.
Kucinich will send two letters today calling for a full investigation into the missing $9 billion in funds in Iraq. One letter will be sent to (...) -
Halliburton Whistleblowers Highlight Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsThe Spoils of War
By MICHAEL SHNAYERSON
Halliburton subsidiary KBR got $12 billion worth of exclusive contracts for work in Iraq. But even more shocking is how KBR spent some of the money. Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse is blowing the whistle on the Dick Cheney-linked company’s profits of war
This time, she was sure, they were going to get her.
Bunnatine Greenhouse had been a huge nuisance since the buildup to the war in Iraq-questioning (...) -
Christian Leaders Urge Congress to Reject Bush Budget
9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsJoint Statement: Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Church of Christ and Methodist Churches
We are preachers, and so, in explaining our opposition to the 2006 Federal Budget that President Bush has sent to Congress, it seems only fitting that we should begin with Scripture.
There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell (...) -
Explain to me how you lose 9 billion dollars?
7 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsHello campers,
We’ve all overdrawn our checking account and there are times when we can’t account for a few dollars here or there. It’s no surprise to anyone that we seem to be shelling out more and more money each year for more or less the same things. But explain to me how you lose 9 billion dollars! That’s right I said billion, with a B! The U.S. occupation authority in Iraq was unable to keep track of nearly $9 billion it transferred to government ministries. These ministries lacked (...) -
Documents unearthed in whistleblower suit show how Custer Battles cashed in on Iraq
5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
A $33,000 food order in Mosul was billed to the U.S.-led interim government of Iraq at $432,000. Electricity that cost $74,000 was invoiced at $400,000. Even $10 kettles got a 400 percent markup.
Documents unearthed as part of a whistleblower suit against Fairfax, Va.’s Custer Battles reveal for the first time the extent to which the defense contractor is accused of gouging the Coalition Provisional Authority, which governed Iraq following the U.S. invasion of the country in 2003. (...) -
Iraq’s missing billions; Bremer shrugs off loss- Iraqis are used to corruption anyhow
2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Iraq’s missing billions
Ibrahim Jaafari, the prime-minister-to-be in Iraq, is unlikely to hand over the nation’s valuable oil assets to foreign companies, but he won’t be able to do much about the rest of the Iraqi economy, which was strangled by Coalition Provisional Authority chief L. Paul Bremer in rules and regulations benefiting Western business.
A few of these rules, left over from the Bremer occupation period, as collected last year by Foreign Policy in Focus, the independent (...) -
Custer Battles: Justice Dept. won’t Intervene to Reclaim Millions From Military Contractor in Iraq
2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
A U.S. military contractor in Iraq is at the center of a controversy over how American-forces disbursed and accounted for hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq.
The firm, Custer Battles is being charged in a lawsuit of defrauding the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars during work in Iraq, which included securing Baghdad International Airport.
Two former employees sued the company last year under the False Claims Act, seeking to recover damages on behalf of (...) -
$9B Goes Missing In Iraq-Huge Sum Disappears Without A Trace
25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Helen Thomas
Profiteering from the Iraq war is not a surprise, especially in light of the Bush administration’s pandering to the military-industrial complex.
But some Democratic lawmakers are concerned that profiteering may have achieved stratospheric dimensions in the case of the $9 billion that is missing from the sale of Iraqi oil. This money was to have been used for humanitarian aid and reconstruction for Iraq.
It seems no one is watching the store. The fund was transferred (...) -
$9 Billion is ’Missing’, and Republicans Refuse to Investigate
17 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsby Ben Frank
There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in action.
What has emerged recently is that the corruption is beyond the scope that anyone could have possibly imagined:
A British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council claimed that officials in the CPA were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for (...)