This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Cheney: “I don’t know any of the details of the contract because I deliberately stay away from any of that information.”
Cheney also said that he has “no idea” why there was no bidding process, and to “go ask the Core of Engineers.” He also said that he “has no financial interest of any kind” with the company and hasn’t “for over three years.”
(Can someone please find me a link to the fact that he still receives deferred income from Halliburton every year? I know I’ve seen that several times in different publications. It’s bound to be somewhere else besides in a Daily Show clip. — Thanks! UPDATE! 9/16/03 — Well, that didn’t take long (see snippet below from Chris Floyd in Counterpunch.)
Update: 9/17/03 – New story in Reuters with all the details.

Cheney On The Halliburton Contracts (Small – 6 MB)




From Counterpunch, March 2003:

Old news, you say? Irrelevant to the current crisis? Surely, now that Cheney has been translated to glory as the nation’s second-highest public servant, he is beyond any taint of grubby material concerns? Au contraire, as those ever-dastardly French like to say. At this very moment, while the smoke is still rising from the rubble of Baghdad, while the bodies of the unburied dead are still rotting in the desert wastes, Dick Cheney is receiving one million dollars a year in so-called “deferred compensation” from Halliburton. That’s a million smackers from a private company that profits directly from the mass slaughter in Iraq, going into the pockets of the “public servant” who is, as the sycophantic media never tires of telling us, the power behind George W.’s throne – and a prime architect of the war.

(Thanks, Jim.)

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Cheney On The Misleading, Inaccurate Estimates For How Much The War Will Cost (Small – 8 MB)

This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Cheney On Misjudgements By The Shrub Administration and Its Primary Concern Over In Iraq (Oil) (Small – 5 MB)

This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)

Cheney On The Plan For Iraq (Or Lack Of One) (Small – 7 MB)
Tim Russert: “What is our plan for Iraq? How long with the 140,000 American Soldiers be there? How many international troops will join them? And how much is this gonna cost?”
Cheney: “Well, some of those questions are unknowable at present. They will depend on developments — depend on how fast it takes us to achieve our objectives.”

This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)

Cheney On The War That Was Supposedly Over May 1, 2003 — And The Soldiers Who Are Still Dying (Small – 5 MB)