KBR Got Bonuses for Work that Killed Soldiers »
Posted By bruhaha 5 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsThe Department of Defense paid former Halliburton subsidiary KBR more than $80 million in bonuses for contracts to install electrical wiring in Iraq. The award payments were for the very work that resulted in the electrocution deaths of US soldiers, according to Department of Defense documents revealed today in a Senate hearing. More than $30 million in bonuses were paid months after the death of Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a highly decorated, 24-year-old Green Beret, who was electrocuted while taking a show at a US base in January 2008. His death, the result of improper grounding for a water pump, has been classified by the US Army Criminal Investigations Division (CID) as a "negligent homicide." Maseth's death had originally been labeled an accident. Bonuses were paid to KBR in 2007 and 2008, after CID investigators had officially expressed concerns about the quality of KBR's electrical work. For its part, KBR denies any culpability for the electrocution deaths.
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bruhaha5 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Peters also charged that KBR "frowned upon" any refusal to sign off on work that Peters deemed incomplete or unsafe. Peters and others who testified said that "all over theater," meaning everywhere in Iraq, KBR would effectively double-bill US taxpayers by leaving electrical work half-done or incorrectly done and then billing taxpayers again to repair its own shoddy work."
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bubba25 months, 2 weeks ago
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Where, indeed, is the outrage over this, especially from all of the W and Dick supporters???
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"Support the troops"??? Yeah, all the way to the morgue.
It has been at LEAST a year ago that this was first reported, and Congress just blobs along and barely does anything about it, even the Democrats.
The reports I read a year ago on Armytimes.com said that KBR sub-contracted all of that electrical work at HALF the price they charged the government, and there is no proof that any of the "electricians" that did the actual work have any sort of certification or proof of acceptable training or skills required of electricians.
It is abominable and it IS CRIMINAL, what the Bush administration allowed during their rein in D.C. They are all accessories to murder or manslaughter on a mass scale.
Yet the brainwashed, myopic people in this country that worship W and Dick and the Republicans continue to ignore all those crimes committed by their "heroes".-
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bruhaha5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Support the Troops is nothing but an empty nationalistic slogan to some people. Where is the outrage from those who claim to support our troops.
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I'm just waiting on the usual suspects to show up here and claim that this is Obama's fault.
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Goppy5 months, 2 weeks ago
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The Modern Republican is a two headed hydra.
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Out of one mouth, comes the torrent of empty words as to how they, and they alone support soldiers and veterans.
The other mouth is used to EAT our soldiers and veterans ... eat their benefits, eat their opportunities, eat their futures ... eat their lives.
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