And Now For Something Completely Different: Torture Profiteering!
June 20th, 2005at 02:19pm Posted by Eli
Just when you think they couldn’t sink any lower…
Carol Rosenberg writes in the Miami Herald [free registration required]: “The Pentagon capped a week of intense debate on the future of its prison for terrorism suspects Friday with an announcement that Vice President Dick Cheney’s old firm will build a new, $30 million 220-cell prison block at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
“Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root received the work under a $500 million Navy contract from July 2004, according to a Defense Department contract announcement e-mailed to The Herald on Friday.”
Entry Filed under: Cheney,Corruption/Cronyism,Iraq,Prisoners,Torture,Wankers,War
