06/14/2004: 
Fraud & Conspiracy
Help for Halliburton alleged in Iraq oil plan
from the "I hate to say I told you so..." Department
Newsday
WASHINGTON -- Pentagon officials have acknowledged that Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and other Bush administration political appointees were involved in a controversial decision to pay Halliburton Inc. to plan for the postwar recovery of Iraq's oil sector, a Democratic lawmaker said yesterday.
The decision, overruling the recommendations of an Army lawyer, eventually resulted in the award of a $7 billion no-bid contract to Halliburton, which Cheney ran for five years before he was nominated for vice president.
Score one for the Tinfoil Hat Brigade.
