I just saw this on
CNN.com and thought I would share the good news!
The claims of Bunnatine Greenhouse (who, some of you may remember, was canned recently for trying to call attention to "the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career") are now being reviewed by the Department of Justice.
More below the fold...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A whistleblower's claims that reconstruction in Iraq has been rife with waste, fraud and abuse -- particularly in regard to a division of Halliburton -- will be turned over to the Justice Department, a U.S. senator said Friday.
The senator, Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota, has championed the cause of Mrs. Greenhouse according to the article.
"I'm encouraged," Dorgan told reporters Friday. "At long, long last, finally someone seems to understand that when you have this kind of gross waste and negligence -- and I think in some cases fraud -- that the American taxpayer deserves answers and someone needs to be held accountable."
Let's hope for the best. There is a chance this may not go anywhere, but there is also cause for hope.
"The DOJ is in the process of considering whether to pursue the matter," Assistant Inspector General John R. Crane wrote in a letter to Dorgan. In that letter, Crane dubbed the matter a "criminal investigation."
A word of thanks to Senator Dorgan, or a word of encouragement to your own senator, may keep some pressure on and help the cause of hope.
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