{"id":676107,"date":"2010-02-25T21:50:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T02:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69225"},"modified":"2010-02-25T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T02:50:05","slug":"army-denies-millions-in-bonuses-to-kbrhalliburton-for-shoddy-work-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/676107","title":{"rendered":"Army Denies Millions in Bonuses to KBR\/Halliburton for Shoddy Work in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_69226\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jc_derr\/727393841\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69226\" title=\"Halliburton Home Team\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/Halliburton-Home-Team-300x196.jpg?resize=300%2C196\" alt=\"If your home is Dubai... or maybe Texas (photo: JC Derr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">If your home is Dubai&#8230; or maybe Texas. (photo: JC Derr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is change I can believe in.  The Army will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/22667343\/detail.html\">deny millions of dollars in bonuses<\/a> to KBR, a division of Halliburton, for contracting work in Iraq that led to deaths:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Congress has denied millions of dollars in bonuses to KBR, the military contractor linked to the death of a local soldier in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth was electrocuted two years ago in a shower in Iraq. He was from Shaler Township. Investigators said he died when an electric water pump malfunctioned. More than a dozen other similar deaths are under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Byron Dorgan, who has led on this issue for quite a while, released this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to deny KBR millions in bonuses for its work in 2008 is welcome news, and is a significant change from the Army\u2019s past practice, but the Army clearly needs go much further,\u201d Dorgan said.  \u201cSpecifically, it needs to review the $34 million bonus and other bonuses it awarded KBR for shoddy work that may have contributed to other electrocution deaths and other serious electrical shocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorgan said the Army\u2019s decision \u201cwill send a long overdue message to military contractors that they will be held accountable for their performance. But the Army needs to send that message much more powerfully. Not awarding a bonus for widespread sloppy contracting work that killed soldiers is just the beginning, not the end point, of accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The least we can ask from our government is that they don&#8217;t reward incompetence and criminal malpractice from the litany of contractors who have essentially defrauded the people.  It&#8217;s good news that we&#8217;re on the road to that accountability, which is long overdue in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69225&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69225\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your home is Dubai&#8230; or maybe Texas. (photo: JC Derr) This is change I can believe in. The Army will deny millions of dollars in bonuses to KBR, a division of Halliburton, for contracting work in Iraq that led to deaths: Congress has denied millions of dollars in bonuses to KBR, the military contractor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PSX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}