halliburton

January 23, 2006 - Fresh off the NSA eavesdropping scandal, Newsweek reveals that the Pentagon has its own domestic snooping operation. It's called Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), and writer Michael Isikoff offers a glimpse of who they're keeping tabs on:

January 9, 2006 - "I plan on pulling that curtain back. I plan on getting into the investigation."

November 20, 2005 - It's been almost four years since Facing South/Institute reporter Jordan Green first wrote about Halliburton's questionable no-bid defense contracts in the "War on Terror." A writer at the NY Times later admitted to me that Jordan was the first journalist

November 15, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal Congratulations to our host, the Institute for Southern Studies, on the launch of their Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch project. Hey, it's an important job and somebody's gotta do it and the media doesn't seem all that interested.

November 10, 2005 - In a 5 p.m.

November 10, 2005 - The Senate voted today against setting up a "Truman Committee" to investigate reports of scandal, fraud and abuse for war contracts going to Halliburton and other companies. But the vote was close, and there was a surprise announcement from one GOP Senator. Here's a dispatch from Halliburton Watch:

October 17, 2005 - With a $200 billion aid package for hurricane-ravaged Louisiana in limbo, the emerging theme spinning out of the GOP message machine is that Louisiana is too "corrupt" to be trusted with the money, and so the people of the Gulf should just be abandoned.