Detention Camp 6, the future prison camp of Guantanamo Bay

A subsidiary of Halliburton, Kellogg Brown and Root, has been awarded $30 million to build an improved 220-bed prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon announced.

Dick Cheney former CEO of Halliburton, who still receives deferred compensation, must be quite the happy camper. And although Cheney had reportedly pledged to donate his after-tax proceeds from his stock options to charity; we all know donations to charity= tax write-off. And Dick Cheney has no conflict of interest?

According to Cheney's 2001 financial disclosure report, the vice president's Halliburton benefits include three batches of stock options comprising 433,333 shares. He also has a 401(k) retirement account valued at between $1,001 and $15,000 dollars. His deferred compensation account was valued at between $500,000 and $1 million, and generated income of $50,000 to $100,000.

And that was in 2001! After all this Iraq work and the billions awarded to Halliburton, Cheney has got to be pleased at how well his former company is doing. Here are a few charts

The job is part of a larger contract that could be worth up to $500 million through 2010, the Pentagon said. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, in Norfolk, Va., is the contracting agency.

What!!?? How much money is this government going to give to this company? How ass backwards and illogical is it to give more contracts to a company that has been ridden with illegal activities and scandal.

Listed here:
- Halliburton charged $61 million too much for delivering gasoline to Iraqi citizens and was forced to repay it

-A Pentagon audit concluded Halliburton charged millions for meals never served to troops and was forced to repay

-Such a huge List of Halliburton offenses that I can't type all the links


And we are building this right after news that Gitmo was treating people like this.

Sen. Durbin read from an FBI agent's report of incidents seen at Guantanamo Bay:

"On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor."

Sen. Durbin then commented on what he had just read from the FBI report:

"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime--Pol Pot or others--that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."

We want to create more environments that treat people like this? Unbelievable.