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Report: KBR Dominates Iraq, Afghan Contracting
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Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, Inc. has won more contract work in recent years with the U.S. government than any other firm operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new report.
The Bush administration has awarded the company, once known as Kellogg, Brown and Root, more than $16 billion for work in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2006, the Center for Public Integrity found.
That figure dwarfs the total contracting dollars won by other corporations working on behalf of the United States in the two occupied countries. DynCorp International, the security firm which ranked second in CPI's report, brought in less than $2 billion in federal dollars, mostly for the State Department, the group found.
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The report, "Windfalls of War II," follows up on the nonpartisan watchdog's October 2003 study, "Windfalls of War." That study and its updates found that KBR dominated contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2002 to 2004 as well. Overall, the firm has obtained more than $27 billion for contract work in the region.
Houston, Tex.-based KBR was a subsidiary of Halliburton, Inc. until the parent spun it off in April through the sale of public stock. Halliburton, once run by now-Vice President Dick Cheney, moved its corporate headquarters to Dubai in March, although it remains incorporated in the United States.
CPI said it based its study on contractor data available through the General Services Administration. It cautioned that there are holes in the information. For instance, the government has contracted nearly $20 billion in work to unnamed businesses located outside the United States -- "a nebulous collection of companies identified by the U.S. government only as 'foreign contractors,'" CPI reported.
As well, one U.S. contracting agency in Baghdad does not report complete information to GSA, the group said. It said it has filed Freedom of Information Act requests to fill in these holes.
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November 20, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (24)
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This would be news if KBR wasn't fulfilling its contractural obligations.
THEY AREN'T. Even while KBR is being investigated by our own Justice Department for several counts, on several contracts, of fraud, abuse, inferior/or no work, overbilling, no recordkeeping, and waste, the Pentagon continues to hand them juicy contracts. There are many organizations that can do what KBR does, just none with the connections.
I'm sure you Halliburton lovers would feel quite differently if Al Gore had been CEO of the company, and was still a major stockholder making big war profiteering bucks while our troops were dying.
Posted by: drindl | Nov 27, 2007 10:22:44 AM
I find it of interest that, in my opinion, the liberal posts are perspective and accurate while the conservatives rely on the same old rhetoric and ignore the facts.
Posted by: Cliff Goad | Nov 29, 2007 4:52:21 PM
This is what all republicans want, Privatization to the trusted insiders their buddies. Then, the market will correct itself after the cronies become very rich and some of them will be positioned in the high court too. American freedom rings loudly and that small group of buddies will laud and laud in and out of the White House. This is the most crazy of democracy.
Posted by: StephenK | Dec 2, 2007 1:07:02 AM
What a simple world it must be in the minds of so many "Kool-aid drinkers" where only one party or the other are deemed to be the saints or sinners. Dick Cheney & his past or present Haliburton cronies or Feinstein's husband, Dick Blum & his KBR(subsidiary of Haliburton) cronies all would appear to benefit in some massive ways from our government's contract deals. Our fearless leaders only pretend greatness. Snap out of it! The potential for astronomical profit is too great for anyone not to indulge in, whether they be left, right or center.
Please take the time to fully assess, digest & dismantle where necessary the people we elect to represent us!!!!!
Posted by: David P. | Dec 15, 2007 1:48:23 AM
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