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Thursday, February 19, 2004
Fear Factor
Anyone who's read a corporate filing knows that companies list "risk factors" that could affect the company in the future. Well, Halliburton has apparently listed an unprecedented new risk factor in its recent filing: Dick Cheney.
The Company writes that the Cheney connection has caused "intense scrutiny" of its operations:
"Since [Cheney's] nomination as vice president," the company said in a recent SEC filing, "Halliburton has been and continues to be the focus of allegations, some of which appear to be made for political reasons by political adversaries of the vice president and the current Bush administration. We expect that this focus and these allegations will continue and possibly intensify as the 2004 elections draw nearer."
I've just read Jane Mayer's excellent article in the recent New Yorker, where she points out that the documents Paul O'Neill has released in connection with Ron Suskind's The Price of Loyalty indicate that Cheney's Energy Task Force was working in tandum with the NSC in planning for post-war Iraq. So, as a friend recently pointed out to me, is it possible that Cheney's intense desire to keep those meetings secret doesn't relate to the fact that the Bush Administration was in bed with the oil and gas industry and the Enron types (after all, everyone already knows that), but in fact is because those documents show that the administration was making plans for an Iraq invasion before 9/11?
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