The Acme of Corruption ... or ... Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?

posted by The Vidiot @ 1:32 PM Permalink

When last we saw our two intrepid zeroes they were attempting to try and take over the world. While suffering from the same ignominies that beset all evil ...uhhh ... geniuses, they continue to strive for their main objective, MONEY ... oh, and to try and take over the world! (They're not mutually exclusive ya know.)

Which concludes the plot exposition and brings us to today's psychotic episodes:

Army to Pay Halliburton Unit Most Costs Disputed by Audit

The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon's own auditors had identified more than $250 million in charges as potentially excessive or unjustified.
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Figures provided by the Pentagon audit agency on thousands of military contracts over the past three years show how far the Halliburton decision lies outside the norm.
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About $208 million of the disputed charges was mostly related to the cost of importing fuel [Ed: See 'the iraq war will pay for itself' AKA 'we will be greeted as liberators.']
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In answer to written questions, a spokesman for the Defense Contract Audit Agency, Lt. Col. Brian Maka, said the settlement of the disputed charges was based on "broader business case considerations" beyond just Pentagon audits.

And the kicker:

more than $11 billion had been disbursed to Kellogg Brown & Root by mid-January, according to the Army Field Support Command

While the above makes one want to Blanche, this misAdministration has always depended upon the kindness of strangers:

Hints of Corruption Lead Some to Urge Blair to Resign

LONDON — Compounding woes for Prime Minister Tony Blair, his Labor Party acknowledged Friday that it had received more than three times the amount it had previously reported in secret campaign loans.
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which contrast sharply with Mr. Blair's pledge when he took office almost nine years ago that his party would be "purer than pure." [Ed: See 'restore dignity to the White House.']
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In an editorial on Friday, a liberal daily, The Independent, said that of 23 people who had donated more than $175,000 to Labor, "17 have been granted a peerage or a knighthood."
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In The Daily Mail, whose politics are on the right wing, the columnist Max Hastings wrote Friday, "This is the world not of British politics but of Tammany Hall," adding that Mr. Blair's dealings "convey a stench that would cause an American congressman to hold his nose."

Lord meet Duke.
He don't know us very well, do he?