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WASHINGTON’S respected Beltway Underground newspaper has found and is set to publish a bombshell photograph the White House doesn’t want you to see – Vice President Dick Cheney with a seven-figure Halliburton Co. check stuck to his expensive Italian shoe, reliable sources confirm.
And to make matters worse, the telltale picture was taken just minutes after Cheney told a Republican fund raiser that he “long ago severed ties” with the corporate giant that used to pay him millions as its CEO.
Cheney’s continuing and possibly unethical association with Halliburton became a hot topic when the firm won $18 billion dollar, “no bid” contract from the Bush administration to help rebuild war-ravaged Iraq and also supply U.S. troops with fuel and food.
Within weeks, the vice president’s old firm was caught overcharging the Pentagon for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of diesel fuel for military vehicles and rations that U.S. troops still haven’t received.
“I categorically deny having anything to do with that company, in public at least, in quite awhile,” Cheney reportedly chortled with a wink to fat cats attending the fund raiser in Washington, D.C.
As for the check stuck to his shoe, he told a reporter: “For all you know, (expletive deleted), that check is old. It could have been written long before we decided to go to war in the months leading up to 9/11.”
Beltway Underground editors declined to comment pending publication of the photograph, which is expected to appear in a “page-one special report” in mid December, insiders told me exclusively.
