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[Ron Force]

Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's
contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding
for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its
former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney.

The payments, which appear on Mr Cheney's 2001 financial disclosure
statement, are in the form of "deferred compensation" of up to Dollars 1m
(pounds 600,000) a year.

When he left Halliburton in 2000 to become George Bush's running mate, he
opted not to receive his leaving payment in a lump sum but instead have it
paid to him over five years, possibly for tax reasons. The vice-president's
office said yesterday it had nothing to do with the award of Pentagon
contracts, and said it would look into the details of the Halliburton
payments.

The company would not say how much the payments are. The obligatory
disclosure statement filled by all top government officials says only that
they are in the range of Dollars 100,000 and Dollars 1m. Nor is it clear how
they are calculated...

The Guardian (London)
March 12, 2003

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> <<Dick Cheney is still being paid by Halliburton.>>
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> Easy to say, but, source and evidence, please....
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> Walter Steed
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