“Vice President Dick Cheney defended Halliburton, which continues to pay him a salary, from what he said were “desperate attacks” by opponents of the Bush Administration. “They’re rendering great service,” he said. “They do it because they’re good at it, because they won the contract to do it. And frankly the company takes a certain amount of pride in rendering this kind of service to U.S. military forces.” Halliburton, which received most of its Iraq contracts by administrative fiat rather than through a competitive bidding process, admitted that its employees in Iraq have accepted $6.3 million in kickbacks.”
Unlike Jimmy Carter:
While he was president, Carter’s investments had been placed in a blind trust managed beyond his control to avoid any conflict of interest.
I think taking a salary from any entity during fulltime public service is a breach of faith, and for it to come from a company that by all accounts is engaged in war profiteering really stinks.
[Posted with ecto]