ScribbleKid

I'm a ProPublica reporter and colleague of Jesse's. I used to cover Halliburton during the Iraq war. During that time, Halliburton had plenty of whistleblowers inside the company and the government that ended up paying a huge price for their actions -- USAC's Bunny Greenhouse and Halliburton's John Mancini come to mind. Do you think the company has a particularly viscious attitude toward whistleblowers? Or is it pretty typical?

Her real name is Bunnatine Greenhouse, which is even better, IMHO. She was the senior contract officer for the Army Corps of Engineers and raised many, many questions about Halliburton's so-called LOGCAP contract -- the big one for supplying food, housing, etc for soldiers. After questioning spending on the $2+ billion contract, she was put into a corner office and removed from her responsibilities

Here: http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/bunny-greenhouse

The budget is huge -- but Congress plays a very important role in what happened. Congress has repeatedly failed to deliver budgets on time, and has never really come to terms with secuestration -- the withholding of funds. The Navy has a hard time planning without firm guidance from Congress.

The Navy just refused to really engage with us at all. We had been communicating with Navy public affairs folks since June 2018. Virtually every request we made was ignored or turned down. Higher leadership, we have been told, simply wants this story to go away.