Cape Times - Halliburton accused of dodgy deals worth $1.4bn

Cape Times - Halliburton accused of dodgy deals worth $1.4bn:

"Bunnatine Greenhouse, a member of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) told lawmakers about dubious conditions under which Halliburton obtained a secret $7bn contract to rebuild Iraq's oil production infrastructure.

'The independence of the USACE contracting process was unquestionably compromised with respect to the issuance of the Restore Iraqi Oil contract, known as RIO,' Greenhouse told the panel.

'I observed firsthand that essentially every aspect of the RIO contract remained under the control of the Office of the Secretary of Defence,' run by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,' she said."