Data and format compiled April 2007. Updated Aug. 2009.
Dick Cheney; Above The Law
Dick Cheney; Made his first
millions stealing oil from a Wyoming National Park by cross drilling. No
conviction.
A portion of the below article appeared in the September 26, 2003
issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Halliburton Is Houston's Greater Hermann Göring Werke'
by John Hoefle
In his farewell address to the nation in 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower
warned about the dangers of "the acquisition of unwarranted influence" by
the "military-industrial complex," noting that "the potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never
let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic
processes."
As supreme commander of Allied military forces in Europe during World War
II, Ike played a key role in the battle not only against fascism, but
against the international Synarchist cabal which orchestrated the rise to
power of Hitler and Mussolini. During his two terms as President (1953-61),
Ike was also well positioned to see this Synarchist cabal's tentacles into
the United States, and how they were attempting to use the Cold War to
solidify their power. In warning about the military-industrial complex, Ike
meant to warn us about the fascists within our own midst.[1]
Events soon proved him right. In 1962 came the Cuban missile crisis; in 1963
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy at the hands of the
Synarchist Permindex assassination bureau; the escalation of the Vietnam War
in the wake of the phony Tonkin Gulf "attacks"
in 1964. These events strengthened the hand of the Synarchists, who have
seized power in Washington in the wake of 9/11, and under the guise of
fighting terrorism have launched an assault on both the Constitution and the
public purse.
Name at birth: Richard Bruce Cheney
* Born: 30 January 1941
* Birthplace: Lincoln, Nebraska
* Best Known As: Vice president of the United States, 2001-2009
Father: Richard Herbert Cheney (b. 26-Jan-1915)
Mother: Marjorie Lorraine Dickey (b. 8-Jan-1918)
Wife: Lynne Ann Vincent (b. 14-Aug-1941, m. 29-Aug-1964)
Daughter: Mary Cheney (lesbian activist, works for Coors, Conifer CO)
Daughter: Liz Cheney (high-level State Department bureaucrat)
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Dick Cheney was elected vice president of the United
States in 2000, as the running mate of George W. Bush, and served in that
office from 2001-2009. Cheney grew up in Wyoming, where he also earned his
college degrees. A staff member in the administration of Richard Nixon,
Cheney became the White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford. Cheney was
elected to the House of Representatives from Wyoming in 1978 and quickly
rose in the ranks of the Republican party; he also served as vice chairman
of the committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal during the presidency
of Ronald Reagan. Under President George Bush the elder, Cheney served as
Secretary of Defense and played a major role in the Persian Gulf War. Cheney
then worked in the oil industry as a top executive for the Halliburton
Company before his return to government in 2000. His ties to Halliburton
became a source of controversy in 2003, when the company received a major
contract to help rebuild Iraq after the U.S. invasion there. Bush and Cheney
were re-elected in 2004, narrowly beating a Democratic ticket of John Kerry
and John Edwards. Cheney did not choose to run for president in 2008. He was
succeeded in 2009 by Democratic vice president Joe Biden.
Cheney shot 78-year-old fellow hunter Harry
Whittington while on a quail-hunting trip in Texas on 11 February
2006. According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, "Cheney turned to shoot
quail that had just been flushed, accidentally peppering one side of
Whittington's body." Whittington was hospitalized but did not seem seriously
injured until two days later, when he suffered a minor heart attack
reportedly caused by bird shot shifting in his body. He was released from
the hospital a few days later. The Judge was most
likely shot because of a disagreement with Cheney. The incident was written
off as an accident and dropped.
The Seizure of Public Lands by the
Federal Bureau of Land Management allows subletting the land to major oil
companies. The Gov. is than paid billions in royalties.
Cheney's involvement with the US
Energy Task Force
The Energy Task Force, officially the National Energy
Policy Development Group, was a task force created by then-president George
W. Bush during his second week in office. Vice President Dick Cheney was
named chairman. Yet another tale of the wolf guarding
the hen house!
The Washington Post reported
on November 15, 2005 that it had obtained documents detailing how executives
from major oil corporations, including Exxon-Mobil Corp., Conoco, Royal
Dutch Shell Oil Corp., and the American subsidiary of British Petroleum met
with Energy Task Force participants while they were developing national
energy policy. Vice President Cheney was reported to have met personally
with the Chief Executive Officer of BP (formerly British Petroleum) during
the time of the Energy Task Force's activities. In the week prior to this
article revealing oil executive involvement, the Chief Executives of
Exxon-Mobil and ConocoPhillips told members of the US Senate that they had
not participated as part of the Energy Task Force, while the CEO of British
Petroleum stated that he did not know. Regardless of whether the executives
were under oath, if these statements were knowingly and materially false and
deceptive then they were illegal per the The Fraud and False Statements
statute (18 U.S.C. 1001). In response to questions regarding the article,
Cheney spokesperson Lea Ann McBride was quoted as saying that the courts
have upheld "the constitutional right of the president and vice president to
obtain information in confidentiality."
On July 18, 2007, the Washington Post reported the names
of those involved in the Task Force, including at least 40 meetings with
interest groups, most of them from energy-producing industries. Among those
in the meetings were James J. Rouse, then vice president of Exxon Mobil and
a major donor to the Bush inauguration; Kenneth L. Lay, then head of
Enron Corp.; Jack N. Gerard, then with the
National Mining Association; Red Cavaney,
president of the American Petroleum Institute;
and Eli Bebout, an old friend of Cheney's from
Wyoming who serves in the state Senate and owns an oil and drilling company.
Dick Cheney & Ken Lay, CEO of Enron, 1986-2002, personal friend,
major contributor and supporter of Bush and Cheney. Ken Lay was found guilty
of tax Evasion, Fraud and a list of other major crimes. he had the nerve to
say that he was resigning because the criminal investigations were
"Distracting." Upon his indictment, Bush, Cheney and others quickly
distanced themselves. Penalty; Potentially 45 years in prison plus monetary
fines, but death of a supposed heart failure before sentencing resulted in
the vacating of convictions. He died while vacationing in Snowmass, Colorado
on July 5, 2006, about three and a half months before his scheduled October
23 sentencing. Did he really die, was he murdered or is he still alive
spending his millions? Regardless, it was quite fortunate that he was no
longer around to give testimony against his partners and associates in
crime. How convenient! Good riddance to yet another swindler in the Oil and
Energy business?
During Ken Lay's reign of Enron he personally, and his
through his company, donated millions to the republican party and their
candidates.
Enron CEO (1986-2001, brief
interruption, 2001-02)
Houston Natural Gas Chairman (1985)
Transco Energy President and CEO (1982-84)
Florida Gas (1974-82, as President, 1981-82)
Exxon Economist (1965-68)
Member of the Board of Compaq (1987-2001)
Member of the Board of Eli Lilly (1993-2001)
Member of the Board of Enron (as Chairman, 1986-2001, brief interruption,
2001-02)
US Energy Department Undersecretary of Energy (1971-74)
George Bush Presidential Library Trustee
Americans for a Republican Majority
Bush-Cheney 2000 Campaign Fund Raiser and Major Contributor.
Kenneth lay obtained his Doctor of Philosophy
in economics from the University of Houston in 1970 and went to work at
Exxon Mobil Corp. successor of Humble Oil & Refining upon graduation.
Lay worked in the early ‘70s as a
federal energy regulator. He then became undersecretary for the
Department of the Interior before he returned to the business world as an
executive at Florida Gas. By the time energy was deregulated in the 1980s,
Lay was already an energy company executive and he took advantage of the new
climate when Omaha-based Internorth bought his company Houston Natural Gas
and changed the name to Enron in 1985. The much larger, better capitalized
and more diversified Internorth was then used as an asset to propel his
efforts at Enron. He also was a member of the board of directors of
Eli Lilly and Company.
Lay was one of America's highest-paid CEOs, earning, for
example, a $42.4 million compensation package in 1999. In December 2000, Lay
was mentioned as a possible candidate for President Bush's Treasury
secretary along with J.P. Morgan & Co. head
Douglas A. Warner III and a few others. Lay
dumped large amounts of his Enron stock in September and October 2001 as its
price fell, while encouraging employees to buy more stock, telling them the
company would rebound. Lay liquidated more than $300 million in Enron stock
from 1989 to 2001, mostly in stock options. As the scandal unfolded, Lay
insisted he wanted to "tell his story." But then he reneged on a promise to
testify to Congress, taking the Fifth instead. Perhaps other people involved
were afraid he might yet talk...so his convenient death? In addition; Civil
suits are expected to continue against Lay's estate. However, according to
legal expert Joel Androphy, claimants may not seek punitive damages against
a deceased defendant.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Aug. 27, 09 -
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke was stated to be among hundreds of
victims of an identity fraud ring that stole more than $2.1 million from
consumers and financial institutions across the United States, Newsweek
magazine reported on its website. What a farce...most
likely a cover up or a means to exclude him from some criminal investigation!!!
Cheney and Halliburton
Chief
among the Synarchists in Washington was Vice President Dick Cheney, whose
relationship with Halliburton exemplifies the military-industrial
relationships of which Ike warned. In 1991, while he was Secretary of
Defense in the first Bush Administration, Cheney secretly hired
Halliburton's Brown & Root subsidiary to do a study on the privatization of
military logistics operations. This study established the Logistics Civil
Augmentation Program, which gave its first general contract to—Brown & Root.
At the time, Cheney and his Undersecretary of Defense for Policy,
Paul Wolfowitz, were pushing for wars against
smaller, resource-rich nations, including the use of "low-yield"
nuclear weapons. When George H.W. Bush left office in January 1993,
Cheney spent some time at the neo-conservative American Enterprise
Institute, and then in 1995, joined Halliburton as president and chief
executive. Cheney added chairman to his titles in 1996, and ran the company
until August 2000, when he stepped down to run for Vice President.
And during that 1995-2000 period, one dollar of every seven spent by the
Pentagon, passed through what is now Kellogg Brown & Root!
At the time Cheney hired Halliburton to do the privatization study,
Halliburton was hardly a disinterested party. The company was already a
major defense contractor through Brown & Root and had significant military
and intelligence connections. There were also, as we shall see, reports of
much darker activities.
With its flurry of construction contracts in Iraq, Halliburton is in many
respects depending upon Dick Cheney for its survival; but Cheney may not
last long either, given his abysmal policy failures and the spotlight put on
those failures by Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche has dubbed Halliburton "The
Greater Hermann Göring Werke of Houston." It has been clear for some time
that Vice President Cheney has been acting as an agent for the international
Synarchist movement, which was founded as the oligarchy's counterattack to
the American Revolution and the principles upon which America was founded.
Cheney and Halliburton have been rightly attacked for the company's war
profiteering, but the reality of their corruption runs much deeper.
The Vice President and his neo-con allies such as Defense Secretary Donald
Rumseld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al., are agents of a power which
is committed to eliminating the principles espoused in the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution, in favor of a global bankers'
dictatorship. This same oligarchic power, acting through merchant banks like
Lazard Frères and Rothschild and other financial institutions, controls a
large swath of Wall Street and corporate America, including Halliburton.
Halliburton's power does not flow from Cheney, but from Cheney's backers,
the Synarchist bankers. Cheney's policy toward the people of Iraq is the
same as Halliburton's policy toward its asbestos claimants, and the same as
Göring's policy toward the people in the Nazi work camps.
Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes You Free) read
the sign over the entrance to Auschwitz. It was
an example of Göring's "big lie" tactic in action. The Cheney cabal's
pronouncements that we must accept police-state tactics in our own nation
and pre-emptive strikes against other nations in the name of freedom, rings
just as false. Hermann Göring would be proud.
Company History
Halliburton traces its roots to Erle P. Halliburton, a pioneer in the
techniques of cementing well bores, who founded the company in 1919. In
1924, Halliburton was incorporated, with significant investments by seven
major oil companies, and Halliburton trucks became common sights in the oil
patch. In 1961, after a series of acquisitions, the company moved its
headquarters from Duncan, Oklahoma, to Dallas, Texas.
In 1962, Halliburton bought Brown & Root, the giant Houston-based
construction company. Brown & Root had also been founded in 1919, by Herman
Brown and Dan Root, with Herman's brother George Brown coming in a few years
later. Brown & Root started out paving roads and building bridges in rural
Texas, and in 1940 got the contract to build the Corpus Christi Naval Air
Station. It built pipelines and ships during World War II, and in 1961 won
the planning contract for the Manned Space Center in Houston. When Herman
Brown died in 1962, George Brown sold the company to Halliburton to avoid a
hostile takeover, though he remained as company chairman. He died in 1983.
Both Herman and George Brown were important figures in the internationally
dominated Houston business world. Herman Brown was a director of the
Rothschild-linked First City National Bank and pipeline operator Texas
Eastern, which he and George founded to buy the "Big Inch" and "Little Inch"
pipelines after World War II. George Brown served as chairman of the
politically important Rice University for 15 of his 25 years on its board,
and served on commissions for Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and
Johnson, as well as on Texas State commissions from the 1930s through the
1970s.
In 1998, Halliburton made another major purchase, acquiring Dresser
Industries for some $7.7 billion. Dresser had been founded by Solomon
Dresser in 1880, and taken over in 1928 by W.H. Harriman & Company, the
investment bank owned by the descendants of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman,
himself a front for the British Royal Family. Under Averell and Roland
Harriman, Dresser was a Skull & Bones shop, whose board included Bonesman
and presidential father and grandfather Prescott Bush. Both Roland Harriman
and Prescott Bush were directors of Union Banking Corp. when it was raided
by Federal agents in 1942, under the Trading With the
Enemy Act, for its dealings on behalf of Nazi Germany.
The Dresser deal smells like some sort of Skull & Bones rescue operation
since, with Dresser, Halliburton acquired several billions of dollars in
asbestos-claim lawsuit liabilities. Dick Cheney, who made the deal, is not a
Bonesman himself, having dropped out of Yale in his sophomore year, but the
Skull & Bones roster contains at least nine Cheneys, more than nearly any
other family.
Also with Dresser came construction company M.W. Kellogg, which was merged
into Brown & Root to form Kellogg, Brown & Root.
Military-Industrial Complex
In many respects, Halliburton seems to be an "American" version of
Schlumberger. The mostly obvious parallel is in the oilfield services field,
where Schlumberger is Halliburton's chief rival, but there is also a strong
undercurrent of spookery. Both companies operate worldwide, wherever the oil
business goes; Brown & Root goes wherever U.S. troops go, and reportedly
provides corporate cover for intelligence operations.
Schlumberger is an arm of one of Europe's most important banking and
intelligence operations. Banque de Neuflize, Schlumberger, Mallet, Demachy,
now a unit of ABN AMRO, is one of those small but important merchant banks
which specializes in shaping world events. The families behind the bank have
a long history of molding the Synarchist movement as an assault-force
against the United States, from the spying of Major André in 1780 to the
assassination of JFK. Today, as an indication of its continuing intelligence
activities, Schlumberger's board includes former CIA Director John Deutch.
Schlumberger also helped bring Fidel Castro to power by helping overthrow
the Batista regime. It was involved in the assassination of Kennedy through
company president Jean de Menil, the White Russian husband of Schlumberger
heiress Dominique Schlumberger de Menil, acting through the New Orleans
office of the Swiss-based company Permindex. Permindex had also organized
several attempts on the life of French President Charles de Gaulle.
There are indications that both Halliburton and Brown & Root were also
involved in Permindex. According to the Nomenclature of an Assassination
Cabal manuscript written under the nom de plume "William Torbitt," both
Halliburton and George and Herman Brown were among the principal financiers
of Permindex, along with Jean de Menil, mob lawyer Roy Cohn, Dallas oilman
H.L. Hunt, and others.
Over the years, EIR has confirmed many aspects of the Torbitt manuscript and
finds these claims credible, and if the claims about Halliburton and the
Browns are true, then it puts Halliburton and Brown & Root firmly in the
Synarchy camp, before their merger, and some three decades before Dick
Cheney took over the company. It would also confirm the Schlumberger link
and suggest that, rather than being a rival, Halliburton is more of a clone
and junior partner of Schlumberger.
Halliburton and Brown & Root do have direct links to two of the most
important merchant banks in the world, Lazard and Rothschild, both of which
serve as controllers of the Synarchist movement. Lazard banker James
Glanville sat on the Halliburton board in the 1980s, as did Lord Polwarth of
the Royal Bank of Scotland; another British lord, Lord Clitheroe, has been
on the Halliburton board since 1987. Brown & Root was one of the companies
centered around First City Bancorp. of Houston and the Vinson & Elkins law
firm. First City, which was founded by Vinson & Elkins founder James Elkins,
was identified by 1976 House Banking Committee report as part of the
Rothschild banking network. Vinson & Elkins was the outside counsel for
Enron, whose board included Lord John Wakeham, the former British Energy
Minister who joined the board of N.M. Rothschild after he left government
service. Enron's accountant, Arthur Andersen, also handled Halliburton, and
there have been suggestions that Halliburton engaged in some Enronesque
accounting of its own under Cheney.
Halliburton also has strong intelligence ties, notably through the presence
on its board from 1977 through 2000 of the King Ranch's Anne Armstrong, who
chaired the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) from
1981 until 1990, in addition to a stint as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain,
and her long-standing role as chairman of the executive committee at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a powerful Washington
think-tank.
Armstrong's successor as Halliburton's top spook is Ray Hunt, one of five
Dresser directors to join the Halliburton board. Hunt, the son of reputed
Permindex funder H.L. Hunt, was appointed to the PFIAB by President George
W. Bush in October 2001. Oilman Hunt is also a trustee of the CSIS and a
director of the King Ranch, suggesting that Hunt is taking the retiring
Armstrong's spot in a long-standing Texas intelligence network. Hunt is also
a trustee of the George Bush Presidential Library and a former chairman of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Another of the directors who came over from Dresser was Lawrence
Eagleburger, the former U.S. Secretary of State and president of Kissinger
Associates.
Asbestos
Most of Halliburton's exposure to asbestos litigation comes from Harbison-Walker
Refractories, which Dresser acquired in 1967. Harbison-Walker built large
industrial ovens, using asbestos for insulation. Harbison-Walker filed for
bankruptcy in early 2002, and is now owned by RHI AG of Vienna, Austria,
whose board includes Stanislaus, Prince zu Sayn Wittgenstein-Berleberg.
The full extent of Halliburton's asbestos exposure can not be known, because
claims are still being filed; but as of June 30, 2003, some 661,000 asbestos
cases had been filed against the company, of which approximately 425,000
remain open. One estimate done for the company projected between $2.2
billion and $3.5 billion in settlements, court judgments, and defense costs
through 2052. The uncertainty has caused Halliburton's stock to plunge,
particularly in the wake of $100 million in judgments rendered against
Halliburton by a Texas court in November 2001, on top of Halliburton's $21
million share of a $150 million court verdict rendered in Mississippi in
October 2001. Despite its surge from the recent Iraq contracts,
Halliburton's stock is still running about half of its 2000 peak.
In an effort to placate investors, Halliburton has promised to take an
aggressive posture toward its asbestos suits, and has rejected—or reneged
upon, depending upon whom you believe—a large number of settlements reached
by Harbison-Walker. By rejecting these settlements, forcing the claimants
back to court, the company is playing a form of chicken, hoping it can reach
new, and cheaper, settlement agreements. If it has miscalculated, the
penalty could be enormous.
One reason why Halliburton might have dared to play this game is its White
House connection to Dick Cheney. BusinessWeek reported in February 2002 that
"rumors spread that President Bush would propose limiting corporations'
exposure to asbestos litigation in his State of the Union Address" on Jan.
29. That did not happen, and a cloud remains over the company.
Halliburton insists that it is adequately insured against its asbestos
claims. That may, or may not be; but even if it has the insurance, that does
not necessarily mean it can collect. Much of Halliburton's insurance is with
Equitas, the company formed by Lloyd's of London several years back as a
place to dump its own asbestos exposure. Equitas's survival depends upon its
ability to deny or downsize claims against its insurance policies, just as
Halliburton depends upon payment of those claims for its own health. For a
company which reported a net loss of $998 million in 2002, these are not
small matters.
President Dick Cheney left his Shadow
Government on January 20, 2009 after stuffing documents, videos, and other
stuff into his pockets.
As vice-president of the Bush Government, Dick Cheney
approved of:
Illegal wiretaps
The torture of prisoners
The formation of death squads for his use
Stealing billions of American taxpayer money via the cover
of Iraq/Afghanistan
Outing CIA operatives
Protecting al-Qaida/Osama bin Laden’s image
Sending out anthrax to kill liberals
Shooting Judge in the face with a shotgun during a so-called hunting
incident
Giving out billions in no-bid contracts to his cronies at Halliburton Corp.
Cursing A US Senator and so much more.
Sources: Cheney curses senator over
Halliburton criticism
Friday, June 25, 2004 Posted: 11:53 AM EDT (1553 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Typically
a break from partisan warfare, this year's Senate class photo turned smiles
into snarls as Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly used profanity toward
one senior Democrat, sources said.
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who was on the receiving
end of Cheney's ire, confirmed that the vice president used profanity during
Tuesday's class photo.
A spokesman for Cheney confirmed there was a "frank
exchange of views."
Using profanity on the Senate floor while the Senate is
session is against the rules. But the Senate was technically not in session
at the time and the normal rules did not apply, a Senate official said.
The story, which was recounted by several sources, goes
like this:
Cheney, who as president of the Senate was present for
the picture day, turned to Leahy and scolded the senator over his recent
criticism of the vice president for Halliburton's alleged war profiteering.
Cheney is the former CEO of Halliburton, and Democrats
have suggested that while serving in the Bush administration he helped win
lucrative contracts for his former firm, including a no-bid contract to
rebuild Iraq.
Cheney's office has said repeatedly that the vice
president has no role in government contracting and has severed all
financial ties with the Texas-based oil services conglomerate.
Cheney was chief executive officer of Halliburton from
1995 to 2000. He resigned when he became George Bush's running mate.
In response to Cheney, Leahy reminded Cheney that the
vice president had once accused him of being a bad Catholic, to which Cheney
replied either "fuck-off" or "go fuck yourself.
Now out of office is Dick Cheney afraid for his life?
Yes, as in July, 2009, he requested an extension on his Secret Service
agents.
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Chief
among the Synarchists in Washington was Vice President Dick Cheney, whose
relationship with Halliburton exemplifies the military-industrial
relationships of which Ike warned. In 1991, while he was Secretary of
Defense in the first Bush Administration, Cheney secretly hired
Halliburton's Brown & Root subsidiary to do a study on the privatization of
military logistics operations. This study established the Logistics Civil
Augmentation Program, which gave its first general contract to—Brown & Root.