Halliburton may keep disputed money October 22, 2004: 7:51 AM EDT

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Army is laying the groundwork to let Halliburton Co. keep several billion dollars paid for work in Iraq that Pentagon auditors say is questionable or unsupported by proper documentation, according to a report published Friday.

"According to Pentagon documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Army has acknowledged that the Houston-based company might never be able to account properly for some of its work, which has been probed amid accusations that Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root unit overbilled the government for some operations in Iraq."

Giving up without demanding an accounting. Not hard to imagine, is it?

And what happens to some guy who hands a teller a note demanding money and walks out of a bank with $2,000 in a holdup? Conservatives are all over the crazed lawbreaker.

Go figure.

Arf