Treasury Asks Halliburton About Iran Dealings

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury is looking into whether Halliburton, the oil services firm once run by Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), broke any U.S. laws in its business dealings with Iran via a foreign subsidiary.



In a filing this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (news - web sites), Texas-based Halliburton said it had received a letter from the Treasury Department (news - web sites)'s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) asking for more information about business dealings with Iran, which is forbidden under federal law.


"We are making further investigations based on questions raised in the most recent (Treasury) letter," said Halliburton in the Feb. 9 filing, without providing any further details.


Neither the Treasury Department nor Halliburton were immediately available to comment on the issue.

Halliburton, which was run by Cheney between 1995-2000, is being investigated for a range of other business dealings by several U.S. government departments.

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[Fla_Dem]

1. Could Halliburton be ready to spill some beans on * and ^

So the feds are showing them they are not too big to be put in place ?

[joeunderdog]

2. Halliburton: "We made Iraq what it is today!"

Why should Iran be any different? They were the #1 business partner with Iraq in the 1990's. They sold revenue--producing equipment to a country currently being called a "gathering threat" back then, a terrorist nation. Then after we bombed the shit out of them, they get billions to rebuild. What a deal!

Why WOULDN'T they do the same in Iran?

[Bandit]

3. Can't we just outsource the investigation to some private firm

Maybe Haliburton could do our investigating for us. I know they are impartial. Hell they gave fifty dollars to a Democrat running for dogcatcher. Why should any of our Congress people have to dirty their hands with such as this.

[jpak]

4. What about Cheney's dealings with Saddam in 1998?

Are they interested in that too?????

If not - why not?