Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) speaks out on Halliburton’s ‘friends in high places’ and their decision not disclose documents and other information to Congress at an oversight hearing on accountability for contracting abuses.
Senator Durbin points to Halliburton’s no bid contracts and the seven billion dollars paid to them in contracts. He concludes, "no patriotic god fearing American company would rip off our troops and our tax payers admits a war." (0:44)
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