The Pentagon yesterday stood accused of sitting on a damaging report from its own auditors about a $108.4m (£56.6m) overcharge by Halliburton for its services in Iraq. In a scathing letter to President Bush, Democratic congressmen Henry Waxman of California and John Dingell of Michigan said the audit by the Defence Contract Audit Agency was finished in October last year - before the election.
They also note that 12 separate requests to the Pentagon to view the completed audits on the contractor's $2.5bn contract to supply fuel and other services in post-war Iraq had been ignored. "We would like to know why this audit report - and audit reports on nine additional task orders - are being withheld from Congress," they wrote. "We also want to know what steps you are taking to recover these funds from Halliburton." Link.
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