Apparently denying responsibility and shifting the blame is a policy that applies to more than just the Bush Administration's political affairs.The Wall Street Journal is reporting (subscription required) that Vice President Dick Cheney testified to the SEC in 2004 regarding Halliburton's (NYSE: HAL) accounting. Former CFO Gary Morris had told investigators that he and Cheney had discussed plans to book disputed, over-budget expenses related to an Egyptian construction project as income.
But Cheney doesn't remember that conversation He testified that "I have no recollection of it. That doesn't mean that it didn't happen."
Don't you hate it when that happens? He also said that he remembers the cost over-runs but didn't remember discussing the accounting and basically told investigators that that was the CFO's issue.
Maybe Cheney's telling the truth. But given the generally slimy personal character that he has displayed as Vice President, you have to doubt his sincerity.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-03-2007 @ 5:18PM
Ed Russell said...
A pretty one sided biased report. Clearly the writer
has an agenda and is not just reporting information. This kind of sleeze journalism is a much larger problem in American then all the politics and health care issues put together.
10-03-2007 @ 5:56PM
Lisa said...
It's the side of the majority Ed Cheney is not the kind of people i would consider trustworthy You are very insecure to think that journalism has to be made to order
10-06-2007 @ 11:57AM
Carol said...
Disgraceful description of the character of our current vice president. Who is Zac B. think he is? It is the CFO's pervue. I'd look into "Zac's" character and politics. It's a blatant smear of a good man. Jealousy and defamation of character eventually eats at a person! He'll get his!
10-08-2007 @ 9:44PM
E. Reinmuller said...
Zac B's commentary was an editorial (albiet, a distorted one sided one), not a report. ER
10-16-2007 @ 6:49PM
Geoffrey Hardy said...
Zac Bissonnette is an idiot with an agenda, how in the world does he qualify for an aol headline?
People are so one sided and plastic!
11-10-2007 @ 10:28PM
Harry said...
Republican, Democrat aside Cheney is a slimeball with absolutely no character. He has made a disgrace of the Vice Presidents office. The mans only concern is himself and certainly not this country.