Truth to Power

Covering up for Dick

The vice president’s associations with Halliburton “raise concerns about the appearance of a conflict of interest or favoritism,” Judicial Watch argued, “particularly since the contract was awarded to KBR without a bidding process and because the contract was not announced to the public until after it was approved.”

“The US district judicial court judge had to get personally involved and look at these documents in private before they could be released,” a Judicial Watch employee told RAW STORY.

“And what the judge said when he saw them was, ‘turn them over,’” the staffer added. “They were abusing the FOIA process – embarrassment is not sufficient cause for exemption.”

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Looks as if the Army Corps might have been doing a little hide and seek with Cheney emails.

Color me unsurprised.


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