More Unsung Help for Halliburton
Every day we learn more about Dick Cheney's brilliant molding of Halliburton into an unelected branch of the government. According to a new Los Angeles Times article , Pentagon officials have admitted that Mr. Cheney's chief of staff helped the "Greatest Corporation" secure a $7 billion, no-bid, taxpayer-funded Iraq contract, skirting the law and overruling the recommendation of an army lawyer. Nicely done! Of course, we would have expected no less from our esteemed Vice President, for the love between a CEO and his conglomerate transcends all earthly (and legal) boundaries.

The article also states that Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California, bane of our corporate brethren, is now "demanding full disclosure of the top-secret process that led to awarding the contract to the Houston-based oil services company."

Henry, Henry, you silly Democrat: Whoever said it was secret?


- posted by Colin A. Faver