According to DoD records made over $150 million dollars building Guantanamo bay's detainee holding facilities, or, as other's have come to call them, torture chambers.
KBR, of course is one of Dick Cheney's special interests friends.
Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven.
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With an estimated $16 billion in contracts, KBR is by far the largest contractor in Iraq, with eight times the work of its nearest competitor.
bostonglobe.com March 6, 2008
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The no-bid contract it received in 2002 to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure and a multibillion-dollar contract to provide support services to troops have long drawn scrutiny because Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive from 1995 until he joined the Republican ticket with President Bush in 2000.
bostonglobe.com March 6 ,2008
In one PDF alone, KBR charged the US DoD $30 Million for Miscellaneous Repairs and Improvements. Other charges included
$17,672,894 - Planning, Remote Camps
$6,728,304 - Migrant Operations Facilities
$2,818,121 - Psych Ward, Fleet Hospital
Despite the GOP's claims, that dick Cheney and his friends in the CIA have plenty of reasons to lie, millions and millions of reasons. When the CIA claims "we only waterboarded 3 people" remember that it is the CIA who is saying it. At this point it is like asking Barney Gumbel to watch your beer. You should know what is going to happen if you do that.
The Cheney's of the world and the CIA and the corrupt Corporations are drunk, drunk on wealth and power. They would sooner risk the lives of thousands of American soldiers, million of foreigners and the safety of America then lose a cent.
And the best part, KBR and their buddies didn't have to pay full taxes for it since they are hiring workers through shell companies based in the Cayman Islands.
DoD Powerless To Stop KBR’s $500 Million Federal Tax Evasion Scheme, Congress Vows To End Practice
Washington , D.C. – Representatives Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03) and Richard Neal (MA-02) met with Department of Defense representatives today to question why Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), the top U.S. contractor in Iraq , has been allowed for the past four years to avoid paying Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring U.S. workers through shell companies based in the Cayman Islands . This meeting follows a DeLauro led March letter to Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates regarding KBR’s longstanding use of foreign front companies to avoid paying U.S. taxes. (Please click here to view the letter).
"Coming days after millions of Americans filed their taxes, it is outrageous that the Department of Defense continues to allow KBR’s use of foreign front companies to avoid more than $500 million in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes. When questioned on this matter today in my office, Defense Department officials admitted these practices had occurred for years. Since the Pentagon refuses to protect American taxpayers in this matter, Congress must take immediate action to stop this case of gross negligence and fraud," DeLauro stated.
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"We have recently found out that KBR not only gives our troops tainted water, but is also taking advantage of a tax loophole that hurts Social Security and Medicare and prevents their own U.S. employees working abroad from being able to qualify for these vital programs. While the Bush Administration is content to look the other way, this Congress will not," said Congressman Rahm Emanuel, a fellow signatory to the March letter.
According to their own website.
KBR has built a proud history and a leading market position in the government and infrastructure sectors by being a low-cost, high-efficiency and absolutely reliable service provider. Not only is KBR the largest contractor for the United States Army and a top-ten contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense, it is currently the world's largest defense services provider.
kbr.com
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That is the Bush/Cheney Junta in a nutshell. Their etchings into history should read.
WAR PROFITEERS, WAR CRIMINALS AND TRAITORS TO THEIR NATION