Thank you my dear source in Iraq for sending me the new Halliburton Task order signed in May with a price tag of $4.9 billion.
The Pentagon did it all very quietly, I suppose, because task orders are deemed sort of insignificant, even it it does bring Halliburton’s total billings in the War on Terror to almost $20 billion.
Still, it makes a niffty little story. Nobody in the media took note and I postponed publishing it for several weeks while hitting the beaches in Mexico.
Thanks to The Washington Post reporter as well for giving me credit for ushering the story his way. The story went around the world.