MEMO MAY VIOLATE GENEVA CONVENTIONS

The Bush administration has said it is following the Geneva Conventions in Iraq, but a memo prepared by the Justice Department in March authorizes the CIA “to transfer prisoners out of Iraq for interrogation ? a practice that international legal specialists say violates the Geneva Conventions.”

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BIG SURPRISE — HALIBURTON GETS SPECIAL TREATMENT

For months the Bush administration has insisted it has given Halliburton, Vice President Cheney’s former company, “no special treatment.” Now, the top civilian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, says “the Army granted the Halliburton Company large contracts for work in Iraq and the Balkans without following rules designed to ensure competition and fair prices to the government.”

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