Halliburton Couldn’t Stop Bunny Greenhouse
January 4, 2007
Despite prevailing tides at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bunny Greenhouse just couldn’t reconcile the lack of competition for large military contracts that were being awarded to the defense industry contractor Halliburton. As a longtime procurement official at that agency she was determined to deliver the best outcomes and full disclosure for American taxpayers on large-scale military contracts that were being handed out as no-bid contracts to Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR).
Bunny referred to the mismanagement of these matters as “the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career.”
From The Washington Post:
Bunny Greenhouse was once the perfect bureaucrat, an insider, the top procurement official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Then the 61-year-old Greenhouse lost her $137,000-a-year post after questioning the plump contracts awarded to Halliburton in the run-up to the war in Iraq. It has made her easy to love for some, easy to loathe for others, but it has not made her easy to know.
In late August, she was demoted, her pay cut and her authority stripped. Her former bosses say it’s because of a years-long bout of poor work habits; she and her lawyer say it’s payback for her revelations about a politically connected company.
Now Bunnatine Hayes Greenhouse is becoming one of the most unusual things known in the upper echelons of government and industry — a top-shelf bureaucrat who is telling all she knows. For honesty’s sake, she says.
