bush demotes another for telling the truth
Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton Pact Is Demoted
A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance.The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military procurement for 20 years and for the past several years had been the chief overseer of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that has managed much of the reconstruction work in Iraq.
The demotion removes her from the elite Senior Executive Service and reassigns her to a lesser job in the corps' civil works division.
Ms. Greenhouse's lawyer, Michael Kohn, called the action an "obvious reprisal" for
the strong objections she raised in 2003 to a series of corps decisions involving the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, which has garnered more than $10 billion for work in Iraq.---
Known as a stickler for the rules on competition, Ms. Greenhouse initially received stellar performance ratings, Mr. Kohn said. But her reviews became negative at roughly the time she began objecting to decisions she saw as improperly favoring Kellogg Brown & Root, he said. Often she hand-wrote her concerns on the contract documents, a practice that corps leaders called unprofessional and confusing.
First seen at Americablog:
Bush does it again. Whether you're a major player or small fry, Bush rewards incompetence and attacks anyone who tries to stick to reality. Gen Shinseki said we'd need hundreds of thousands of troops to secure Iraq (he was right, obviously) and got pushed aside. Last week, one gov't official refused to hide the facts about racial profiling among cops and was demoted. Now, Bush has finally been able to demote the brave woman (a top Army contract official) who denounced long-term no-bid contracts to Halliburton. Bush has no shame.
posted by rich at 9:41 AM
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