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August 29, 2005

We have ways of making you shut up....

Halliburton Contract Critic Loses Her Job

A high-level contracting official who has been a vocal critic of the Pentagon's decision to give Halliburton Co. a multibillion-dollar, no-bid contract for work in Iraq, was removed from her job by the Army Corps of Engineers, effective Saturday.

Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, commander of the Army Corps, told Bunnatine H. Greenhouse last month that she was being removed from the senior executive service, the top rank of civilian government employees, because of poor performance reviews. Greenhouse's attorney, Michael D. Kohn, appealed the decision Friday in a letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, saying it broke an earlier commitment to suspend the demotion until a "sufficient record" was available to address her allegations.

The people writing up the performance reviews of Greenhouse were the same people she was criticizing, incidentally.

Greenhouse's lawyer is appealing to Rumsfeld..who will no doubt be sympathetic to military personnel who are screaming about the Defense Department allowing contractors to abuse the US Treasury.

Posted by Carla at August 29, 2005 04:50 PM