| July 12, 2006 | - The U.S. Army said that it would not renew its contract for logistics support with Halliburton.
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BBC News
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| April 23, 2006 | - It was reported that firms performing contract work for KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary that provides basic services to the U.S. military in Iraq, were violating human trafficking laws and confiscating the passports of their employees.
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San Jose Mercury News
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| January 26, 2006 | -
Halliburton announced that 2005 was its best year ever.
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SignOnSanDiego.com
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| November 19, 2005 | - The Justice Department was considering an investigation into how the Halliburton Company was secretly awarded noncompetitive multibillion-dollar contracts for oil-field repairs in Iraq.
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The New York Times
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| September 6, 2005 | - Houston, Texas, the headquarters of contractors Halliburton and Baker Hughes, was preparing for a boomin the wake of Hurricane Katrina; one real-estate firm was offering special financing deals "for hurricane survivors only."
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IHT
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| August 30, 2005 | - Federal prosecutors accused eight officials from KPMG and a lawyer of conspiracy for helping wealthy people evade at least $2.5 billion in taxes, and a man named Glenn Allen Powell pleaded guilty to taking as much as $1.25 million in kickbacks in Iraq while working for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root.
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The Washington Post
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The Washington Post
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| February 4, 2005 | - Good relations with Halliburton were more important to the U.S. Army than $2 billion in disputed bills.
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The New York Times
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| January 9, 2005 | -
Halliburton, operating through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, was to start drilling for oilin Iran.
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Reuters
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| December 21, 2004 | - A suicide bomber set off a bomb at a mess tent on a U.S. base in Mosul, killing 22 and wounding 69. Among the dead were 13 American soldiers and four employees and subcontractors of Halliburton. A spokeswoman for Halliburton called for a full investigation into the attack. South of Kirkuk, insurgents set an oil well on fire.
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AP
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| November 8, 2004 | -
Halliburton admitted that it might have bribed Nigerian officials.
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Forbes
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| September 24, 2004 | -
Halliburton was thinking about selling its KBR subsidiary, which handles the company's contracts in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| August 18, 2004 | - The U.S. Army announced that it will withhold 15 percent of the fees billed by the Halliburton Company but almost immediately decided to "withhold" the decision pending further review.
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New York Times
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| July 27, 2004 | - A government audit found that Halliburton lost about one third of the property it was given to manage in Iraq; 6,975 out of 20,531 items were missing. The lost government property was worth $18.6 million.
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Houston Chronicle
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| June 29, 2004 | - Observing that "a state of war is not a blank check for the president," the Supreme Court ruled that both foreign prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay and so-called enemy combatants held in the United States can use the American legal system to challenge their detention.
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New York Times
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| June 25, 2004 | -
Cheney said he felt much better after he told Senator Patrick Leahy, who has been critical of Halliburton's war profiteering in Iraq, to go fuck himself.
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Reuters
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| May 31, 2004 | - An Army Corps of Engineers email revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney's office "coordinated" Halliburton's multi-billion-dollar Iraq contract; Cheney has said that he had nothing to do with the contract, which was awarded without competing bids.
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Agence France-Presse
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| May 23, 2004 | -
Halliburton, it was reported, has been getting paid for hauling empty trucks across the Iraqi desert.
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Knight Ridder Newspapers
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| March 18, 2004 | - The Pentagon was withholding a $300 million payment for Halliburton until auditors make sure that the government was not overcharged.
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Agence France-Presse
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| March 16, 2004 | - The Congressional Budget Office published calculations showing that the federal budget deficit is largely a result of President Bush's
tax cuts and spending increases; the agency estimated that only 6 percent of the deficit was the result of economic weakness.
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New York Times
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| March 12, 2004 | - Criminal investigations of Halliburton for its war profiteering in Iraq were ongoing; the company has acknowledged that mistakes were made.
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Associated Press
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| February 23, 2004 | -
Halliburton, the former employer of Vice President Dick Cheney, was running television commercials pleading that its lucrative government contracts in Iraq were granted "because of what we know, not who we know."
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New York Times
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| February 4, 2004 | -
Halliburton agreed to repay the government for $27.4 million in overcharges for military meals.
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Washington Post
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| January 23, 2004 | - Vice President Dick Cheney defended Halliburton, which continues to pay him a salary, from what he said were "desperate attacks" by opponents of the Bush Administration. "They're rendering great service," he said. "They do it because they're good at it, because they won the contract to do it. And frankly the company takes a certain amount of pride in rendering this kind of service to U.S. military forces."
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CNN
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| January 23, 2004 | -
Halliburton, which received most of its Iraq contracts by administrative fiat rather than through a competitive bidding process, admitted that its employees in Iraq have accepted $6.3 million in kickbacks.
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CNN
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| January 7, 2004 | - The head of the Army Corps of Engineers waived federal contracting requirements for Halliburton's operations in Iraq that would have required the company to submit cost and pricing information on its gasoline imports even though Halliburton was recently accused of overcharging the government $61 million for gasoline.
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New York Times
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| January 2, 2004 | - A French magistrate was thinking about indicting the vice president in a bribery case involving a gas liquefication factory built by Halliburton in Nigeria.
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Nation
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| December 12, 2003 | - The Pentagon accused Halliburton, which recently removed its name from outside its corporate headquarters in Houston, of overcharging for gasoline in Iraq.
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Reuters
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| September 30, 2003 | - It was noticed that Joe M. Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and until recently the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has set up a consulting firm to help clients exploit the occupation of Iraq. According to the company's website, "New Bridge Strategies, LLC is a unique company that was created specifically with the aim of assisting clients to evaluate and take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East following the conclusion of the U.S.-led war in Iraq." The company describes the "opportunities" in Iraq as "unprecedented" in nature and in scope.
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New Bridge Strategies
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| September 26, 2003 | - L. Paul Bremer, the American overseer of Iraq, was having a hard time explaining to Congress why he needs so much money. In an attempt to explain a $400 million request for two 4,000-bed prisons, which comes to $50,000 per bed, Bremer explained that there is a "shortage of cement" in Iraq.
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Financial Times
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| August 28, 2003 | - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revealed that Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, has received more than $1.7 billion in military contracts in Iraq, far more than was previously known. It was noted that the practice of outsourcing logistical operations to private contractors was pioneered by Cheney during the first Gulf War when he was secretary of defense. Brown and Root won the first such contract, and Cheney was hired as CEO of Halliburton soon afterward.
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Washington Post
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| April 15, 2003 | -
The Army Corps of Engineers revealed that the Pentagon contract to fight oil fires in Iraq, which was awarded to Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Dick Cheney's most recent private employer, will be worth up to $7 billion. The contract was given without the usual competitive bidding process.
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| March 25, 2003 | -
The Bush Administration requested bids from American companies to participate in the rebuilding of Iraq; Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, was among the companies that were invited.
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| October 16, 2001 | -
President Bush was still trying to exploit the terrorist
attacks as an excuse to drill for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
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| July 24, 2001 | - A natural-gas well exploded near Waco, Texas, killing two Halliburton Company workers.
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