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Friday, March 18, 2005

Halliburton Overcharged $108 Million, Report Says

Excess billing for postwar fuel imports to Iraq by the Halliburton Company totaled more than $108 million, according to a report by Pentagon auditors that was completed last fall but has never been officially released to the public or to Congress.

In one case, according to the report, the company claimed that it had paid more than $27 million to transport liquefied petroleum gas it had purchased in Kuwait for just $82,000 - a fee the auditors tartly dismissed as 'illogical.'

The fuels report, by the Defense Contract Audit Agency, was one of nine audits involving a subsidiary of Halliburton, Kellogg, Brown & Root, that were completed in October 2004, in the month before the American presidential elections. But the administration has kept all of them confidential despite repeated requests from both Republican and Democratic members of Congress.

This should be a front page story. But 99.9% of those who are paying for this fraudulent war-profiteering -- the American public -- will never know anything about it. Words escape me.

Jack Clark 10:34 PM [+]   
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