DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE-IRAQ CONTRACTS
Chronology:
February 24, 2004
Letter to DOD Inspector General Schmitz from Reps. Dingell and Waxman asking the DOD IG to investigate the December 19 waiver given by the Corps of Engineers to Halliburton, citing new evidence that this unusual waiver -- which relieved Halliburton of its obligation to provide data to justify its high gasoline prices -- may have been awarded on false premises 
February 12, 2004
Letter to William H. Reed, Director, Defense Contract Audit Agency concerning reports from two whistleblowers that Halliburton has repeatedly and routinely overcharged the taxpayer under the LOGCAP contract
January 16, 2004
Letter to Joseph E. Schmitz, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense, from Reps. Waxman and Dingell, and Senator Lieberman regarding the status of the November 25, 2003, request that the Inspector General's office investigate Halliburton's overcharges for importing gasoline into Iraq
January 6, 2004
Letter to Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, from Reps. Waxman and Dingell urging the Army Corps of Engineers to reverse its decision to excuse Halliburton from justifying the pricing of gasoline imported into Iraq
December 19, 2003
Letter to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld from Reps. Dingell and Waxman concerning Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root charges for gasoline imports into Iraq
December 18, 2003
Letter to Rear Admiral (ret.) David J. Nash, Director, Iraq Program Management Office, from Reps. Dingell and Waxman concerning the award and oversight process for the $18.7 billion in funding for 26 cost-plus contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq
December 10, 2003
Letter to Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from Reps. Dingell and Waxman concerning new information from the Army Corps of Engineers that raises questions about the prices Halliburton and its subcontractor are charging
November 25, 2003
Letter to Joseph E. Schmitz, DOD Inspector General, from Reps. Dingell and Waxman and Senator Liberman asking for an investigation into the high gasoline prices being charged by Halliburton and the appropriateness of using $725 million from the Development Fund for Iraq to pay these fuel costs
November 5, 2003
Letter to the U.S. Corp. of Engineers from Reps. Dingell and Waxman regarding the planned transfer of responsibility to import gasoline into Iraq from Halliburton to the Defense Energy Support Center
October 29, 2003
Letter to Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from Reps. Dingell and Waxman regarding the price Halliburton was paid to import gasoline from Kuwait into Iraq
October 21, 2003
Letter to the Army Corps of Engineers from Reps. Dingell and Waxman disclosing that the Iraqi oil company SOMO has imported gasoline into Iraq for a far less amount than the price Halliburton charged
October 15, 2003
Letter to OMB Director Bolten from Reps. Dingell and Waxman revealing the inflated prices that Halliburton has charged to import gasoline into Iraq
October 15, 2003
Statement of Representative John D. Dingell regarding Contracting Abuses in Iraq
September 12, 2003
Letter to OMB from Reps. Dingell and Waxman regarding the additional $2.1 billion for Iraq oil fields
April 8, 2003
Letter to the General Accounting Office from Reps. Dingell and Waxman asking for an investigation of DOD contracts awarded to Halliburton over the past two year
April 8, 2003
Letter to the General Accounting Office from Reps. Dingell and Waxman regarding Iraq contracts
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