| Dick Cheney is a part-time Vice President who dutifully uses his influence in the administration to benefit his primary employer Halliburton, a supplier of oil production equipment and military support services. |
| The Vice President earns $186,300. Source: http://www.c-span.org/questions/weekly18.htm Cheney stepped down as head of Halliburton to join Bush in the race for the White House in the summer of 2000. He cashed in his stock options for $35 million. Source: ABC News.com -- Cheney’s Corporate Liability - Linda Douglass Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., in a letter to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress...said Cheney has received an additional $13 million in stock rights from Halliburton and continues to receive $180,000 in deferred salary annually. "These concerns have increased in recent days with the disclosure that Halliburton's subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root ... has been awarded lucrative Defense Department contracts despite having a record of excessive costs and other problems," the letter said. Source: SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS - April 9, 2003 -- Scrutiny of Iraq-restoration deals urged - Gary Martin Brown & Root also paid $2 million last year to settle a criminal charge for overbilling the government. Source: Letter from Rep. Waxman and Rep. Dingell to OMB Director Joshua Bolton, 10/15/03. (Courtesy Misleader.org) Judging from Vice President Cheney's sources of income, it seems safe to assume that his primary employer is Halliburton. He is only moonlighting as our Vice President. Cheney is not the only member of the Bush inner circle to profit. United Defense provides Combat Vehicle Systems, Fire Support, Combat Support Vehicle Systems, Weapons Delivery Systems, Amphibious Assault Vehicles and Combat Support Services. Some of United Defense's current programs include: The Bradley Family of Fighting Vehicles, the M113 Family of Fighting Vehicles, the M88A2 Recovery Vehicle, the Grizzly, the M9 ACE, the Composite Armored Vehicle, the M6 Linebacker, the M4 Command and Control Vehicle, the Battle Command Vehicle, the Paladin, the Future Scout and Cavalry System, the Crusader, Electric Gun Technology/Pulse Power, Advanced Simulations and Training Systems, and Fleet Management. This list goes on and on, and includes virtually everything an eternal war might need. Who owns United Defense? Why, the Carlyle Group, which bought United Defense in October of 1997. For those not in the know, the Carlyle Group is a private global investment firm. Carlyle is the 11th largest defense contractor in the United States because of its ownership of companies making tanks, aircraft wings and other equipment. Carlyle has ownership stakes in 164 companies which generated $16 billion in revenues in the year 2000 alone. The Carlyle Group does not provide investment or other services to the general public. Who works for the Carlyle Group? George Herbert Walker Bush works for the Carlyle Group, has been a senior consultant for Carlyle for some years now and sits on the Board of Directors. This company is profiting wildly from this war in Iraq, a tidy gift from son to father. Source: William Rivers Pitt - August 10, 2003, at the Veterans for Peace National Convention in San Francisco. During the Iraq invasion of March 2003, gas prices in the US reached record highs. |
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