The New York Times reports:

A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance.

The rest of us call it Bush doing his usual thing. Humph.

The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military procurement for 20 years and for the past several years had been the chief overseer of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that has managed much of the reconstruction work in Iraq.

Known as a stickler for the rules on competition, Ms. Greenhouse initially received stellar performance ratings, Mr. Kohn [her lawyer] said. But her reviews became negative at roughly the time she began objecting to decisions she saw as improperly favoring [Halliburton subsidiary] Kellogg Brown & Root, he said. Often she hand-wrote her concerns on the contract documents, a practice that corps leaders called unprofessional and confusing.

In October 2004, General Strock [commander of the Corps of Engineers], citing two consecutive performance reviews that called Ms. Greenhouse an uncooperative manager, informed her that she would be demoted.

She was a very uncooperative manager, worrying about those little things like "corruption" and "$10 billion hand-outs to Dick Cheney's pet company." Very uncooperative, indeed.

Kellogg, Brown and Root's corrupt practices go back at least to LBJ's administration! Astonishingly enough the best candidate (literally) for TX governor is probably Kinky Friedman! - Texassophile in pristine Utah

Posted by  Anonymous @ 3:43 PM

 

there was a long piece on this in vanity fair a few months back... check it out:

http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/050307roco02

-a

Posted by  Andrew S. @ 4:38 PM

 

Guess Bush doesn't have to worry about "The Greenhouse Effect" any more. - Steaming in UT

Posted by  Anonymous @ 9:41 PM

 

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