{"id":9263,"date":"2015-09-08T06:26:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2015-09-08T06:26:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:26:59","slug":"halliburton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"Halliburton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe, just maybe, it was that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2010\/may\/24\/chris-matthews\/chris-matthews-says-cheney-got-34-million-payday-h\/\" target=\"_blank\">$34 million exit package<\/a>\u00a0that Cheney got when he left his CEO position at Halliburton to become an honorable public servant. Halliburton received around\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/winner-most-iraq-war-contracts-kbr-395-billion-decade-1135905\" target=\"_blank\">$40 billion in government contracts<\/a>\u00a0in the decade after\u00a02003, many of those without bidding. Three years after the Iraqi invasion, its stock had risen by about 300 percent.<\/p><p>There was an estimated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/09\/contractor-waste-iraq-KBR\" target=\"_blank\">31-60 billion dollars worth of contractor fraud<\/a>\u00a0and waste in Iraq war, and a large part of that came from Halliburton, now known as KBR. As Adam Weinstein reported for Mother Jones, KBR cost \u201cat least $193 million in pay for unnecessary personnel, and maybe as much as $300 million,\u201d which includes $100 million of government-furnished property that cannot be accounted for. KBR has also been blamed for the electrocution and death of 12\u00a0soldiers, because of poor wiring jobs at army bases.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/09\/05\/dick_cheneys_savage_revisionist_history_inside_his_disturbing_campaign_to_twist_the_facts_of_iraq\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/09\/05\/dick_cheneys_savage_revisionist_history_inside_his_disturbing_campaign_to_twist_the_facts_of_iraq<\/a>\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe, just maybe, it was that\u00a0$34 million exit package\u00a0that Cheney got when he left his CEO position at Halliburton to become an honorable public servant. Halliburton received around\u00a0$40 billion in government contracts\u00a0in the decade after\u00a02003, many of those without bidding. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9265,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}