This isn't really new to any of us, but it's still worth noting.
The Center for Public Integrity, which is "a Washington-based research organization that produces investigative articles on special interests and ethics in government," or in other words, presumably nonpartisan, released a report today detailing the contracts given to American corporations to rebuild Iraq.
THE STUDY of more than 70 U.S. companies and individual contractors turned up more than $500,000 in donations to the president's 2000 campaign, more than they gave collectively to any other politician over the past dozen years.
"No single agency supervised the contracting process for the government," the center's executive director, Charles Lewis, said. "This situation alone shows how susceptible the contracting system is to waste, fraud and cronyism."
Besides the obvious Halliburton connections to the Bush administration, I hadn't realized this connection - kind of an odd one.
David Kay, head of the Bush administration's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is a former vice president of Science Applications International Corp. He left the company in October 2002
Oh well, this isn't a surprise, let's just see how much play it gets. Odd that the Center picked today (in advance) to release the report, considering it will probably be massively overshadowed by the GDP numbers.
