- Bunny Greenhouse
Bunnatine (Bunny) H. Greenhouse is a former chief contracting officer (Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC)) of the
United States Army Corps of Engineers . OnJune 27 ,2005 , she testified to a Democratic Party public committee, alleging specific instances of waste, fraud, and other abuses and irregularities byHalliburton with regard to its operations in Iraq since theIraq War . She described one of theHalliburton contracts (secret,no-bid contract s awarded toKellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)—a subsidiary of Halliburton) as "the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career."A long-time government employee, Greenhouse was hired by Lieutenant General Joe Ballard in 1997 to oversee contracts at the Army
Corps of Engineers . After Ballard retired in 2000, Greenhouse's performance reviews, which had been exemplary throughout her public career, suddenly soured. Greenhouse filed anEqual Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint alleging race and gender discrimination, which her attorney states has never been investigated. In August 2005, she was demoted in what her lawyer called an "obvious reprisal" for her revelations about the Halliburton contracts.Ms. Greenhouse is a featured speaker on the
National Whistleblower Center 's [http://whistleblowers.org/html/speakers_bureau1.html| Speakers Bureau] .External links
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801796.html Washington Post article on Bunnatine Greenhouse]
* [http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/greenhouse.html PBS "Now" segment on Greenhouse]
* [http://www.whistleblowers.org/html/greenhouse.html Bunny Greenhouse Legal Defense Page]
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