TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Thursday, December 28, 2006

From Associated Press Dec 25 2006:

" Four of the largest Katrina contracts currently under review by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general. The companies have denied that political connections played a factor in their contract awards.

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BECHTEL GROUP INC.
Location: San Francisco

Value of contracts: $250 million, on top of previous no-bid work of up to $575 million

Contributions: More than $1.3 million since 2000, primarily to Republicans

Also: CEO Riley Bechtel served on Bush's Export Council from 2003-2004

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CH2M HILL COMPANIES LTD.
Location: Englewood, Colo.

Value of contracts: $250 million, on top of previous no-bid work of up to $500 million

Contributions: Nearly $1 million since 1999, primarily to Republican National Committee and other Republicans

Also: Roughly $500 million in previous government contracts

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FLUOR CORP.
Location: Irving, Tex.

Value of contracts: $250 million, on top of previous no-bid work of up to $1.4 billion

Contributions: More than $930,000 since 2000, primarily to Republicans

Also: Contracts awarded to subsidiary Del-Jen Industries also under review

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THE SHAW GROUP INC.
Location: Baton Rouge, La.

Value of contracts: $250 million, on top of previous no-bid work of up to $950 million

Contributions: Roughly $290,000 since 2000, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans

Also: Former FEMA director Joe Allbaugh, a longtime friend of President Bush, is Shaw's registered lobbyist and business consultant

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Sources: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hoover's, Taxpayers for Common Sense
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Labels: Katrina

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Comments:
Oftentimes with these huge engineering consulting firms it is hard to distinguish the valid professional qualifications that merit these firms getting the contracts from their political connections and motivations. The listed firms are undoubtedly extremely well connected to the Bush/GOP administration, but they have also always gotten the lion's share of the contracts even during Democratic administrations because there are just a few big competitors, and they invariably divide up the "booty" among themselves. Only the relative proportions vary from firm to firm, from year to year.

I recall specifically reading of ties of Fluor Corporation execs to the CIA and other government agency (OGA) spook operations, but I would not be surprised if all of them have CIA/spook black operative connections as well.

John Perkins in his book Confessions of an Economic Hitman exposed Bechtel as one of the corporations involved to a large degree with the large-scale fraud and the perpetuation of violence and predation of the affluent economically developed world against the small, resource rich, but poor underdeveloped world. I highly recommend Perkins's book. He has been slammed by White House spin doctors and propagandists, so you know he must be on to something.


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