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Report: Cheney OK’d Halliburton Iraq Deal

HeadlineJun 01, 2004

Time Magazine is reporting it has obtained an email from an Army Corps of Engineers official in March 2003 that indicates Vice President Dick Cheney directly approved the massive no-bid contract for reconstruction in Iraq that went to Halliburton, the company Cheney headed before becoming vice president. Time’s report directly contradicts former public statements by Cheney. Last September he appeared on Meet the Press and told Tim Russert, “As Vice President, I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the Federal Government.”

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