What does the Bush Administration do when a multinational corporation:
- receives a preferential no-bid contract to deliver services,
- is found to have engaged in systematic overcharging and underperformance,
- is under investigation for bribery, and
- is under investigation for fraud
Why, what a silly question! The answer is that it awards that corporation a new $5 billion contract. It does so without letting anyone know, well, just because: “We did not announce this task order as this is really not something we ever really thought about doing.”
Yes, this is the expected course of action for the Bush administration — if the corporation is named Halliburton, that is.
“the government has no issue with Halliburton’s performance,” said Kurt Hallead
Their subscription expired?
(too many jokes, brain imploding..)
Some years back, when when I was still in the army, a neighbor of my folks who was some sort of “spook” told me my folks had mentioned some of my military experience, and told me that there were agencies which could use my expertise and experience when I retired. Told me about some of his own, mentioned doing jobs for certain corperations and how well the bonus’s could set one up. I asked how could one do such things for private companies/business’s, and he said that above a certain level there was no no discenable difference.
Sorry, that ended as “in who payed your check.