More Bush Crony Contracts, This Time for Katrina
Doesn't anybody care any more when (far future) tax dollars are just thrown away like this? As Laura Rozen has been asking about other matters all weekend, where is the oversight?
Eric Lipton and Ron Nixon report on the latest in a long long series of Bush squander scandals in the New York Times:
More than 80 percent of the $1.5 billion in contracts signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency alone were awarded without bidding or with limited competition, government records show, provoking concerns among auditors and government officials about the potential for favoritism or abuse.
Already, questions have been raised about the political connections of two major contractors - the Shaw Group and Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton - that have been represented by the lobbyist Joe M. Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former leader of FEMA.