before i read this article. there ARE people working for our government who ATTEMPT to do the right thing. ATTEMPT to keep an eye on where our tax dollars are going. ATTEMPT to play fair and by the rules.
IF these honest and honorable workers are dealing with halliburton or one of their subsidiaries, dealing with an eye to what is RIGHT, well then, the honest and honorable worker is sent to sit in a corner somewhere (as a BEST case scenerio).
Why 'Bunny' Greenhouse sits in a corner
Sherwood Ross Middle East Times October 25, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Bunnatine Greenhouse sits in a cubicle in a far corner of an office in the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) headquarters in downtown Washington, DC, where, she says, "I am treated like a non-person." Months crawl by yet her immediate supervisor just can't seem to find the time to meet with her to discuss a work assignment. The taxpayers of the United States pay her salary but, oddly, no demands are made of her. That's a sad plight for a dynamic woman executive who is the cover girl of the July/August issue of Fraud Magazine. She's not written up for being on the wrong side of the law, only on the wrong side of the Bush White House, now a law unto itself. Fraud is published by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and Ms. Greenhouse is the recipient of the association's coveted 2006 Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award. She's been showered with honors and is the subject of laudatory press. In another America in another time, an administration might well have been proud of her. Instead, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has trashed the American Dream of this African-American woman who rose by her own bootstraps from poverty in Rayville, LA, to become the highest US contracting civilian in USACE. Hers was the responsibility for passing on $23-billion in contracts annually. A personnel file stuffed with gold star evaluations attests to her zealous guardianship of the public's money. So why is the woman everyone calls "Bunny" made to sit in a corner, punished like a spoiled child? As she told Fraud editor Dick Carozza: it's over her refusal to sign off on billions of dollars worth of no-bid, no-compete contracts that are enriching Halliburton Corp., previously headed by Vice President Richard Cheney. ......
...............Absent the honest oversight of Bunny Greenhouse and other civil servants like her, Iraq has become what one official who served there called "a fraud-free zone." Billions, not millions of dollars, likely have been stolen from both the Iraqi and the American people. In the words of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.): "The largest single recipient of Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) funds was Halliburton. The company vastly overcharged to import gasoline into Iraq and to provide other oil-related services. These overcharges, which exceed $200-million, were billed to the US Army Corps of Engineers. But US officials arranged for over 80 percent of them to be paid out of the DFI." .............
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