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| A long-time government employee, Greenhouse was hired by Lieutenant General Joe Ballard in 1997 to oversee contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers. After Ballard retired, Greenhouse's performance reviews, which had been exemplary throughout her public career, suddenly soured. Greenhouse filed an ](EEOC) complaint alleging race and gender discrimination, which her attorney states has never been investigated. In August 2005, she was demoted in what her lawyer called an "obvious reprisal" for her revelations about the Halliburton contracts. | A long-time government employee, Greenhouse was hired by Lieutenant General Joe Ballard in 1997 to oversee contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers. After Ballard retired, Greenhouse's performance reviews, which had been exemplary throughout her public career, suddenly soured. Greenhouse filed an ](EEOC) complaint alleging race and gender discrimination, which her attorney states has never been investigated. In August 2005, she was demoted in what her lawyer called an "obvious reprisal" for her revelations about the Halliburton contracts. | ||
| ==David H. Safavian== | |||
| The top federal procurement official, David H. Safavian, resigned 9/16/05 and was arrested, accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. | |||
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Bunnatine (Bunny) Greenhouse, is a former chief contracting officer (Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC)) of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On June 27, 2005, she testified to a Democratic Party public committee, alleging specific instances of waste, fraud, and other abuses and irregularities by Halliburton with regard to its operations in Iraq since the Iraq War. She described one of the Halliburton contracts (secret, no-bid contracts awarded to Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR)—a subsidiary of Halliburton) as "the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career."
A long-time government employee, Greenhouse was hired by Lieutenant General Joe Ballard in 1997 to oversee contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers. After Ballard retired, Greenhouse's performance reviews, which had been exemplary throughout her public career, suddenly soured. Greenhouse filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission(EEOC) complaint alleging race and gender discrimination, which her attorney states has never been investigated. In August 2005, she was demoted in what her lawyer called an "obvious reprisal" for her revelations about the Halliburton contracts.
David H. Safavian
The top federal procurement official, David H. Safavian, resigned 9/16/05 and was arrested, accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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External links
- Washington Post article on Bunnatine Greenhouse
- PBS "Now" segment on Greenhouse
- Bunny Greenhouse Defense Fund