From American Family Voices - Miriam V

AM Feed - August 29, 2005

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Bunnatine Greenhouse, a top Army contract official who has been outspoken in
her criticisms of no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton, was demoted on
Saturday.
Greenhouse has worked in her field for 20 years, and received very high
performance ratings - that is, until she spoke out against the treatment
received
by Vice President Cheney's former company. Greenhouse objected to the
five-year, $7 billion no-bid contract awarded to Halliburton subsidiary
Kellogg Brown
& Root, and further disapproved of a waiver granted to the company back in
December 2003 that allowed for high prices of fuel imports to Iraq.
Greenhouse
called the treatment of Kellogg Brown & Root "the most blatant and improper
contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional
career."
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By now, indicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's ties to Rep. Tom DeLay
(R-TX) and other top conservatives are common knowledge. But newly surfaced
emails
now indicate just how far his influence reached in the Bush administration's
Interior Department as well. Emails sent in 2002 reveal that Abramoff was
counting on the then-deputy secretary of the Interior J. Stephen Griles to
help block casino construction in Michigan on environmental grounds (a
tactic
used to benefit an Abramoff client). At the same time, Abramoff was
attempting to hire Griles away from the department. It is a potential
violation of
federal law for a government official to negotiate for a job while making
decisions that influencing the employer.
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Who Says That?

"The terrorists that are watching Cindy Sheehan's protest believe that this
is something that might topple the current administration." - Howard
Kaloogian,
founder of Move America Forward, and one of the 1,000 or so Bush supporters
who held a rally in Crawford, TX, on Saturday. A recent AP-Ipsos poll found
that nine in ten Americans believe it's acceptable for opponents of the war
to publicly demonstrate their opinions.

Morning Snark
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Ah, two leading news stories about corruption and a juicy quote that equates
opposition to President Bush with helping the terrorists. In other words, it
's
business as usual under the Bush administration.