Fired Army Whistleblower Receives 970 K For Exposing Halliburton No Bid Contract In Iraq

Bunnatine Bunny Greenhouse, the former chief oversight official of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, has reached a 970, 000 settlement six years after she was demoted for publicly criticizing a multibillion dollar, nobid contract to Halliburton the company formerly headed by thenVice President Dick Cheney. Greenhouse had accused the Pentagon of unfairly awarding the contract to Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown Root. Testifying before Congress in June 2005, she called the contract the worst case of government abuse she had ever witnessed in her 20year career. Just two months after that testimony, Greenhouse was demoted at the Pentagon, ostensibly for poor She had overseen government contracts for 20 years and had drawn high praise in her rise to become the senior civilian oversight official at the Army Corps of Engineers. With the help of the National Whistleblower Center, Greenhouse filed a lawsuit challenging her demotion.