Halliburton Cleared of Iraq Wrongdoing

[jimnyc]

Originally posted by bamthin
Price gouging on the gasoline transportation contract is only one of the phases of the Halliburton/KBR audit. Stay tuned. They aren't out of the woods yet.

-Bam

The Tom Daschle effect still has it's grasp on you I see!

 

[jones]

ok so there was some investigations. Those big corporations get away with anything.

They will all come around and they will burn.

But seriously type in "crime family" in google. Didnt know they were the most WELL KNOWN crime family on earth/america.
BAHAHAHAHAH :clap1:

 

[DKSuddeth]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../ap/20040111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/watchdog_fraud

WASHINGTON - Pentagon auditors spent 1,139 hours altering their own files in order to pass an internal review, say investigators who found that the accounting sleuths engaged in just the kind of wasteful activity they are supposed to expose.



When the auditors in the New York City office learned well in advance which files a review team would check, they spent the equivalent of more than 47 days doctoring the papers and updating records from several audits, the Defense Department's inspector general concluded. Administrative staff, audit supervisors and other employees also participated in the scheme.


The fabrication at the Defense Contract Audit Agency "certainly violates the spirit and intent" of government auditing standards and rules on ethical conduct, according to the inspector general's report obtained by The Associated Press.


The fabrication was discovered in 2001, but the report on it was not disclosed until Tuesday.


The defense agency, which audits government contracts, is the same one that recently reported that Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s former company, Halliburton, may have overcharged the Army as much as $61 million for gasoline in Iraq (news - web sites).


The audit agency ran up some charges of its own when its auditors worked on altering the records.


The task of rewriting the files was so daunting that auditors came in from other offices to help make the changes, costing taxpayers more than $1,600 in travel expenses.


The agency "is supposed to be the watchdog for defense contracts," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a constant critic of government waste. "Altering audit work papers could undermine the accuracy of the Pentagons cost reports. Falsifying official reports is a crime, and those involved must be held accountable."


To stop any fabrications in the future, the review teams only give 48 hours advance notice of the files they want to inspect. The advance time under the old policy was much longer.


Discipline was proposed for the manger who directed the alterations, but was never imposed because the official resigned, the report said.


Daniel Tucciarone, executive officer of the audit agency, said a second senior management official who "had not been forthcoming and acted inappropriately to conceal information" was punished.


Tucciarone told the AP that the agency took "appropriate disciplinary action in all cases" but added that federal privacy law prevented him from releasing such information about individual employees.


The revisions were so pervasive that the work continued even after the review team arrived to inspect the auditors' files. The New York branch manager directed a senior auditor to delete electronic backup files of original documents, the inspector general said.


The report said agency employees believed that "upgrading" the working papers was a normal and acceptable practice and that they did not try to hide what they were doing.


The inspector general uncovered the file deletions following a tip to a fraud, waste and abuse hot line.


This is not the first time that Pentagon anti-waste investigators were found to have altered documents.


The AP reported in 2001 that the inspector general's office itself destroyed documents and replaced them with fakes to avoid embarrassment in a review of its work.

 

[jimnyc]

Originally posted by jones
ok so there was some investigations. Those big corporations get away with anything.

Whine, bitch, whine, bitch - Halliburton has been cleared of the overcharging.

 

[jones]

Jim, why are you apologetic of this oil company?

 

[jones]

Originally posted by DKSuddeth
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../ap/20040111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/watchdog_fraud

WASHINGTON - Pentagon auditors spent 1,139 hours altering their own files in order to pass an internal review, say investigators

The audit agency ran up some charges of its own when its auditors worked on altering the records.


The task of rewriting the files was so daunting that auditors came in from other offices to help make the changes, costing taxpayers more than $1,600 in travel expenses.

Discipline was proposed for the manger who directed the alterations, but was never imposed because the official resigned, the report said.


Daniel Tucciarone, executive officer of the audit agency, said a second senior management official who "had not been forthcoming and acted inappropriately to conceal information" was punished.


The report said agency employees believed that "upgrading" the working papers was a normal and acceptable practice and that they did not try to hide what they were doing.

They sure like to alter documents and punish their OWN employees.

You going to apologize for the arabs too? that were flying around the country while everybody else was grounded on 9/11?

 

[jimnyc]

Originally posted by jones
Jim, why are you apologetic of this oil company?

Apologetic? No. I just wait for the facts to come out before I jump to conclusions and render a guilty verdict. Their explanation from the beginning was reasonable to me and it was apparently reasonable to the investigators.

 

[jones]

Maybe you should read my last post.
Its obvious something strange is going on.

 

[wonderwench]

jonsie,

How on earth do you summon up the courage to venture out in public given all of the conspiracy theories you have?

It must take a will of iron!

 

[jones]

theories? common, do you even know how rampant corporate corruption is?

 

[jimnyc]

Originally posted by jones
theories? common, do you even know how rampant corporate corruption is?

It's really that rampant? I would have thought it was just within the Bush administration after reading your posts.

 

[eric]

No Jim, do you not know about the evil empire ?

 

[wonderwench]

Originally posted by jones
theories? common, do you even know how rampant corporate corruption is?

The best defense against any corruption is to preserve our liberty and ability to think and act for ourselves.

I am much more afraid of government corruption and the ever increasing intrusion into our private lives than I am of any corporation.

 

[jimnyc]

Originally posted by eric
No Jim, do you not know about the evil empire ?

Darth Bush?

 

[jones]

This is the merger of goverment and state. Its been going on for a VERY long term, but nobodys seen it this bad.



Better look out for those terrorists! they're everywhere!

Take off YOUR tinfoil hats people, its embarrassing.
dang, i had a link to website with list of frauds from corporations for last year but i cant find. But, just to let you know its at all time high.

http://www.doyouknow.org/


Feeling safer yet? I thought attacked us because they were jealous of our freedoms... Oh, now I get it. That's why we're getting rid of them.

 

[wonderwench]

The best way to vote is with your dollar jonsie. So quit buying the products from those evil oil companies.

You're just enabling their corruption.

 

[jones]

That would require me to stop paying tax returns, because thats were cheneys ol' company is getting it. I cant do that.

 

[wonderwench]

What kind of revolutionary are you?

 

[NightTrain]

Darth Bush?

Yes. And Hillary the Hutt.

 

[acludem]

The fact that Halliburton, a company once-run by the Vice President of the United States is getting all of these contracts without even having to bid is questionable at best. The Pentagon is run by the Executive Branch of the federal government. Dick Cheney is the Vice President of the United States and a large stockholder of Halliburton stock. There will be no real investigation under this administration. This Congress will do nothing about it either.

acludem