A straight-shooter in government?

Nah. they had to fire her. WaPo does a pretty good piece on Bunnatine Greenhouse who got fired for questioning the Halliburton no-bid contracts in the run up to the Iraq war.

Credit Sini over at Jusiper for the find.

And from this piece we now know why Dick Cheney went off on Leahy last year. (funny that was always left out of the narrative that went on for days.)

Bunny Greenhouse was once the perfect bureaucrat, an insider, the top procurement official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Then the 61-year-old Greenhouse lost her $137,000-a-year post after questioning the plump contracts awarded to Halliburton in the run-up to the war in Iraq.....

"[Expletive] yourself!" former Halliburton chief executiveand current veep Dick Cheney snapped at a senator last year in an exchange related to Greenhouse's allegations.

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