[Mb-civic] Crisis Profiteering: Dick Cheney, Halliburton and Hurricane Katrina

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As for Cheney, I think it could be, on the one hand, a sort of sick symbolic coincidence that he kicked off his tour down here in this utterly devastated region in Gulfport, Mississippi, because that's one of the main areas where his so-called former company, Halliburton, where its subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root has a lucrative contract to rebuild the damaged and destroyed military facilities. As you said, KBR is going to receive about $12 million for work at one naval station and is going to get roughly another $5 million at another station. But what's more significant and what people are not focusing on is that Kellogg Brown & Root is also now traveling throughout the region assessing damage to, for instance, the pumps in New Orleans and the infrastructure of the city. They have already begun providing services for some five hundred Department of Homeland Security personnel. They have set up a camp for the Mississippi Power Company. And so they're setting up these same ki
 nds of camps that we see in Guantanamo and Iraq and elsewhere to service the rebuilding of the Gulf area here 


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We get a report from Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill on Halliburton's role in reconstruction in the Gulf area, plus a survey of the current situation in New Orleans. [includes rush transcript]
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