Fact checking Liz Cheney
Liz Cheney rushes to defend Halliburton, ignores gov’t fraud allegations
On ABC’s This Week, Liz Cheney ridiculed Arianna Huffington for her statement that Halliburton defrauded the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars. In fact, federal agencies have repeatedly accused Halliburton and its former subsidiary, KBR, of fraud with regard to its work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
CHENEY: Her assertion that Halliburton defrauded the U.S. government
HUFFINGTON: It did.
CHENEY: – that there was Bush-Cheney cronyism. These are the left’s talking points.
HUFFINGTON: Hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq –
CHENEY: Arianna, it’s absolutely not true. It is absolutely not true.
DOD audits of Halliburton’s Iraq and Afghanistan contract found at least $1.4 billion in questioned and $441 million in unsupported costs. In December 2001, the federal government awarded the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) III contract to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR).</em>
Ah, a Cheney creating an alternate reality. Seems like old times, don’t it?
