I don't live in a fantasy land and think that governments are perfect but this ongoing ripoff by Halliburton certainly should raise questions about the GOPs plans to ditch all government programs and privatize everything, such as Social Security. It scares the hell out of me to have major Republican donors and profit making corporations running programs like this.
Over the next three months, Mancini said in a recent interview, he watched as colleagues at Halliburton subsidiary KBR paid inflated fees for cell phone services, bought hundreds of rolls of duct tape for $60 each and obscured the waste by failing to file paperwork properly. In one case, he said, a fellow procurement employee recorded a multimillion-dollar purchase as a $200 order, then dismissed it as a mistake.Nice, Davis wants to blame it all on the people who are complaining about waste so he can muzzle the subject that has been pissing off Americans, just before the election. What a guy.
Committee Chairman Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) said "the so-called whistle-blowers" simply misunderstood the logistical reality of life during wartime. He said he was giving the Democrats a chance "to put up or shut up" on an issue that won't go away.
