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David Rubinson <rubinson@kab.com> wrote:
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:13:43 -0500
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From: David Rubinson
Subject: UnCheney My Heart Momma
by David Sirota, Christy Harvey and Judd Legum
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January 23, 2004
HALLIBURTON
Cheney: Company "Unfairly Maligned"
Cheney: Company 'Unfairly Maligned'
Vice President Dick Cheney has had an unusually big media month – and today he topped it off by defending his former employer Halliburton after it "told the Pentagon that two employees took kickbacks valued at up to $6 million in return for awarding a Kuwaiti-based company with lucrative work supplying U.S. troops in Iraq." The company's work already is being scrutinized for potentially overcharging the U.S. government for other work in Iraq. But according to the WSJ, "Cheney defended the company Wednesday in a Fox Radio Network interview saying, 'They get unfairly maligned simply because of their past association with me.'" Dow Jones reports that, despite Halliburton's own admissions, Cheney "said allegations of corruption stem from 'desperate' political opponents who 'can't find any legitimate policy differences' to debate."
DENYING HIS CONNECTIONS: Despite the questions swirling around Halliburton's multi-billion-dollar no-bid contracts, the Bush Administration recently awarded the company another $1.2 billion for work in Iraq. Cheney was asked about this in his Fox Radio interview, and said he had no financial interest in the company's effort to make billions off the government. He said, "I severed my ties with Halliburton when I became a candidate for vice president in August of 2000." But according to a congressional report last year, "Cheney still has a financial interest in Halliburton." While Cheney complained that he would "take a bath" by leaving the oil company for the vice presidency, the report says that his $20 million deferred compensation package and the "more than 433,000 stock options he possesses may 'represent a continuing financial interest.'" When the Senate attempted to stem this conflict of interest last year, Cheney's allies voted down the measure.
CORRUPTION EFFORTS COULD TARGET CHENEY: In an unplanned coincidence, Attorney General John Ashcroft "urged nations to fight against global corruption" in the same week that "a French judge reportedly warned that Cheney could be charged over allegations that his former company, Halliburton, paid $180 million in bribes to build a Nigerian gas plant." If the allegations proved accurate, Cheney could also face charges under American law, as "Such bribes have been illegal in the United States since the mid-1970s under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.”
ETHICAL QUESTIONS SURROUND CHENEY: CNN reports "Two leading senators asked Chief Justice William Rehnquist on Thursday about the propriety of a hunting trip Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took with Vice President Dick Cheney while Cheney has a case pending before the high court." Currently, government watchdog groups are suing to force Cheney to disclose which energy executives he allowed to help write the Administration's energy bill. The LA Times editorial board says, "For the court's credibility, Scalia should duck out of this case," though to date, Scalia has not yet indicated whether he will pull out of the case.
CHENEY IRAQ ALLEGATIONS DISSECTED: After Cheney's NPR interview yesterday, the Center for American Progress issued a backgrounder dissecting his claims. Some of the highlights: in an interview with the Rocky Mountain News, Cheney repeated an allegation that there may have been a link between one of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers and Iraq. He said, "On the 9/11 question, we've never had confirmation one way or another." But these allegations have since been dismissed by President Bush. The WP reports that in his NPR interview yesterday, "Cheney said intelligence pointing to stockpiles of anthrax and VX nerve agent came from the United Nations." But the story notes "the United Nations did not assert that Iraq still had such stockpiles." See more from American Progress about the Administration's Iraq claims and facts, and also a new memo about the allegations about an Iraq-al Qaeda link.
CHENEY DISCREDITED BY HIS OWN WEAPONS INSPECTOR: In his NPR interview, Cheney said "We've found a couple of semi-trailers at this point which we believe were in fact part of [a WMD] program. I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did in fact have programs for weapons of mass destruction." This is a direct affront to the report by CIA weapons inspector David Kay, who earlier reported, “We have not yet been able to corroborate the existence of a mobile biological weapons production effort." When Kay was asked about Cheney's latest comments yesterday, he told the BBC it was "premature and embarrassing" to characterize the vehicles found as weapons labs. "I wish that news hadn't come out," Kay said, calling it a "fiasco." To hear Kay's comments, go to the 3:45 mark in this NPR audio file.
CHENEY FIRES UP CONSERVATIVES, IGNORES DEFICITS: With all the controversies surrounding him, Cheney took comfort by rallying the conservative faithful at the annual convention of the Conservative Political Action Committee. But even there, he was forced to avoid certain issues. As AP reports, "Vice President Dick Cheney spoke up for the administration's war on terrorism, support for tax cuts and opposition to abortion, but stayed away from budget deficits" despite conservatives being "dismayed at the record deficits that have occurred since the Bush administration took office." Cheney "made no mention of spending," simply saying, "The Bush tax cuts were exactly what the economy needed."
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<DIV>Frances<BR><BR><B><I>David Rubinson <rubinson@kab.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:13:43 -0500<BR>To: (Recipient list suppressed)<BR>From: David Rubinson <RUBINSON@KAB.COM><BR>Subject: UnCheney My Heart Momma<BR><BR><A href="http://www.americanprogress.org/"><IMG height=92 alt=c49423.jpg src="cid:6.0.0.22.2.20040123131205.030d0640@mailhost.kab.com.0" width=601><FONT size=3><BR><BR><IMG alt=c4961c.jpg src="cid:6.0.0.22.2.20040123131205.030d0640@mailhost.kab.com.1"><BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>by David Sirota, Christy Harvey and Judd Legum<BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=1>Know the most first: Sign up for <A href="http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=3750">email delivery of The Progress Report</A>.<BR>Please send any news tips to <A href="mailto:pr@americanprogress.org">pr@americanprogress.org</A>.<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>January 23,
2004<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times" color=#a52f09 size=4><I><A name=1></A>HALLIBURTON<BR></I></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times" color=#15232c size=4>Cheney: Company "Unfairly Maligned"<BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><A href="file://#1/">Cheney: Company 'Unfairly </A><A href="file://#1/">Maligned'<BR><BR></A>Vice President Dick Cheney has had an unusually big media month – and today he topped it off by defending his former employer Halliburton after it "told the Pentagon that two <A href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB107481502573909519,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us">employees took kickbacks</A> valued at up to $6 million in return for awarding a Kuwaiti-based company with lucrative work supplying U.S. troops in Iraq." The company's work already is being scrutinized for potentially <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/12/politics/main588216.shtml">overcharging the U.S. government</A> for other work in Iraq. But according to
the WSJ, "Cheney defended the company Wednesday in a Fox Radio Network interview saying, 'They get unfairly maligned simply because of their past association with me.'" Dow Jones reports that, despite Halliburton's own admissions, Cheney "said allegations of corruption stem from 'desperate' political opponents who 'can't find any legitimate policy differences' to debate."<BR><BR><B><U>DENYING HIS CONNECTIONS:</U></B> Despite the questions swirling around Halliburton's multi-billion-dollar no-bid contracts, the Bush Administration recently <A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/whitehouse/la-fg-halli17jan17,1,450978.story?coll=la-news-politics-white_house">awarded the company another $1.2 billion</A> for work in Iraq. Cheney was asked about this in his Fox Radio interview, and said he had no financial interest in the company's effort to make billions off the government. He said, "I <A href="http://online.wsj.com/search#BT_CO_20040122_002895">severed my ties</A>
with Halliburton when I became a candidate for vice president in August of 2000." But according to a congressional report last year, "<A href="http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/25/news/companies/cheney/?cnn=yes">Cheney still has a financial interest in Halliburton</A>." While Cheney complained that he would "<A href="http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/12/cheney.parachute.ap/">take a bath</A>" by leaving the oil company for the vice presidency, the report says that his $20 million deferred compensation package and the "more than 433,000 stock options he possesses may 'represent a continuing financial interest.'" When the Senate attempted to stem this conflict of interest last year, Cheney's allies <A href="http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2003/10/18/news/wyoming/2879e1c8c280904c2f01622a05499fef.txt">voted down the measure</A>.<BR><BR><B><U>CORRUPTION EFFORTS COULD TARGET CHENEY:</U></B> In an unplanned coincidence, Attorney General John Ashcroft "urged nations to <A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3655676,00.html">fight against global corruption</A>" in the same week that "a French judge reportedly warned that <A href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-nigeria-corruption-country,0,6235632.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines">Cheney could be charged</A> over allegations that his former company, Halliburton, paid $180 million in bribes to build a Nigerian gas plant." If the allegations proved accurate, Cheney could also face charges under American law, as "Such bribes have been <A href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/business/stories/011004dnbushalliburton.4b26.html">illegal in the United States</A> since the mid-1970s under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” <BR><BR><B><U>ETHICAL QUESTIONS SURROUND CHENEY:</U></B> CNN reports "Two leading senators asked Chief Justice William Rehnquist on Thursday about the <A href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/22/scalia.cheney.trip/">propriety of
a hunting trip</A> Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took with Vice President Dick Cheney while Cheney has a case pending before the high court." Currently, government watchdog groups are suing to force Cheney to disclose which <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44891-2003Aug25?language=printer">energy executives he allowed to help write</A> the Administration's energy bill. The <A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-scalia22jan22,1,6317969.story">LA Times</A> editorial board says, "For the court's credibility, Scalia should duck out of this case," though to date, Scalia has <A href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/scotus.cheney.scalia/">not yet indicated whether he will pull out of the case</A>.<BR><BR><B><U>CHENEY IRAQ ALLEGATIONS DISSECTED:</U></B> After Cheney's NPR interview yesterday, the Center for American Progress issued a <A href="http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=23795">backgrounder dissecting his
claims</A>. Some of the highlights: in an interview with the <A href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/politics/article/0,1299,DRMN_35_2565269,00.html">Rocky Mountain News</A>, Cheney repeated an allegation that there may have been a link between one of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers and Iraq. He said, "On the 9/11 question, we've never had confirmation one way or another." But these allegations have since been <A href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0918-03.htm">dismissed by President Bush</A>. The <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40116-2004Jan22.html">WP</A> reports that in his NPR interview yesterday, "Cheney said intelligence pointing to stockpiles of anthrax and VX nerve agent came from the United Nations." But the story notes "the United Nations did not assert that Iraq still had such stockpiles." See more from American Progress about the <A
href="http://www.americanprogress.org/AccountTempFiles/cf/%7bE9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03%7d/PRIRAQCLAIMFACT1029.HTM">Administration's Iraq claims and facts</A>, and also a new <A href="http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=23816">memo</A> about the allegations about an Iraq-al Qaeda link.<BR><BR><B><U>CHENEY DISCREDITED BY HIS OWN WEAPONS INSPECTOR:</U></B> In his NPR interview, Cheney said "We've found a couple of semi-trailers at this point which we believe were in fact part of [a WMD] program. I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did in fact have programs for weapons of mass destruction." This is a direct affront to the report by CIA weapons inspector David Kay, who earlier <A href="http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/2003/david_kay_10022003.html">reported</A>, “We have not yet been able to corroborate the existence of a mobile biological weapons production effort." When Kay was asked about Cheney's latest
comments yesterday, he told the BBC it was "<A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-cheney23jan23,1,1979048.story?coll=la-home-headlines">premature and embarrassing</A>" to characterize the vehicles found as weapons labs. "I wish that news hadn't come out," Kay said, calling it a "fiasco." To hear Kay's comments, go to the 3:45 mark in this <A href="http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1611757">NPR audio file</A>.<BR><BR><B><U>CHENEY FIRES UP CONSERVATIVES, IGNORES DEFICITS:</U></B> With all the controversies surrounding him, Cheney took comfort by rallying the conservative faithful at the annual convention of the Conservative Political Action Committee. But even there, he was forced to avoid certain issues. As <A href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/22/national1755EST0757.DTL">AP</A> reports, "Vice President Dick Cheney spoke up for the administration's war on terrorism, support for tax cuts and opposition to abortion,
but stayed away from budget deficits" despite conservatives being "dismayed at the record deficits that have occurred since the Bush administration took office." Cheney "made no mention of spending," simply saying, "The Bush tax cuts were exactly what the economy needed."<BR><BR></FONT><X-SIGSEP>
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