Halliburton: Over Charging Us a Fortune to Feed Spoiled Food to the Troops

Did I miss the president apologizing for this tonight?

No?

Wow. I'm sure he feels really bad about it though while he eats his second dinner of the night prepared by his team of taxpayer-paid French chefs. Really.

You'll find this topic covered in some detail in one of the Daily Kos diaries, like this:

Mr. Rory Mayberry, Food Production Manager at Camp Anaconda in Iraq from February to April 2004, testified (via video feed) that KBR regularly and consistently fed expired food (food past its freshness date by up to a year!) to our troops in Iraq. Refrigerated food and frozen food in the refrigeration trucks would be left to spoil when the trucks were turned off. He also said that the KBR management would throw parties for themselves three to four times a week and served perfectly good food at the parties! Added to this, they would feed the troops 10,000 meals and charge the government for 20,000 meals.

as well as this reported by from Byron Dorgan:

Mayberry said he witnessed not only KBR's practice of overcharging for dining hall services, but also efforts by KBR managers to avoid the scrutiny of government auditors. As a result of suspicions he had raised with the auditors, Mayberry said KBR managers sent him to a more dangerous camp in Fallujah during the auditors' visit to Camp Anaconda. He left KBR shortly after, but has since returned to Iraq with another private contractor.