the sarin gas used could be traced to government stockpiles earlier we spoke to alexander shulgin the russian representative at the o.p.c. w. who was at that latest meeting. jeem report of the seventh report has been established in flagrant disregard to. basic higher standards of the chemical convention united nations security council resolutions and previous decisions by the e.c. executive council it is a bold to respect the chain of custody. headed by mr mueller came to more school. in september i guess if i'm not mistaken and we expressed point of view.

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act had. a clip of glee state that the abuse really made it to contracts awarded to keep our represents the most blatant and improper contract of abuse i have witnessed during the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how to go to move big contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left. with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from nine eleven till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a billion dollars off the war there's a great future. defending the woman is no longer about being

interviewed the american enterprise institute he says you would be a disaster in fashion these things who are we going to waste it she goes home on a number of you change the vanity and that's one of the many did do you do the work for him over these hundreds of millions of dollars you see. in these. u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their they believe service connected health injuries say that k.b.r. short sighted didn't install center raters when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it was it gets the regulations to do so and as

a result they're sick of all the contracts that k.b.r. and held. require them to comply with you. a regulations the allegation is that k.b.r. rather than complying with the contract complying with these environmental regulations disposing only of what should be disposed of using incinerators doing it the right way for reasons often related to profit margins was disposing of dangerous toxins in a way that directly impacted the health of soviet troops. seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks quite a bit of stuff. that should have been segregated out it was mine it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if you're k.b.r. employee and you're throwing. biological medical waste into the. into

the burn pit tires and anything else. that did is known to be a toxin. then you're you're careless and you're you're putting people's health in jeopardy and that's exactly would a lot of these k.b.r. contractors were doing. for me to accept is. working for k.b.r. and they have knowledge of. hazardous chemicals on the ground they cause cancer. here and i'll. just put in my family and i had ever experienced that it's necessary. i'm. very upset over that. today very very upset. so i should be ashamed. that they did that. the military exercise regular

daily oversight and supervision and periodically issued. from reports of k.b.r. performance not just on waste disposal but across all the many functions that k.b.r. performed in the war theatres so the military was aware of what k.b.r. was doing and if they thought that k.b.r. was doing those kind of things then they would have been in a position to make those practices you know change to halt very little government oversight on the love scene of the major personnel director you actually work force were kellogg brown and root personnel. i've seen time and time again take your claim that the reason why they didn't do what they were supposed to was they were allegedly being told to do something or working under the military supervision my experience has been and what i've seen in sworn testimony is that too often k.b.r. personnel were more or less directing the military about what was going to be done rather than the right way. when i noted the violations infractions and

improper actions not kill on the run route i supported them to management road ports and i was basically told shut up that they would make the decisions about them as decisions. the case or rick lambert and what k.b.r. tried to do with him when he tried to expose what was going on and revealed some of the misconduct really points to an attitude that i've seen before or k.b.r. is more concerned about keeping the truth down than fixing the problem. we know from g.a.o. reports that have come out since you know way two thousand and nine two thousand and ten that both the d.o.d. am k.b.r. were not operating these burn pits within their own regulations they were burning as are this materials all over iraq and afghanistan you know this not only for the

veterans but through the g.a.o. reports g.a.o. also found that many of these. at worst still operating as late as through thirteen and this is at least two years after they were told to shut them down or they would have been a lot better off using incinerators incinerators use the last. fuel i believe they're more energy efficient and they release less toxins and so that means that any military personnel soldiers and others that are in the area aren't going to be exposed to toxic chemicals toxic fumes that kind of thing to operate the burn pits was much cheaper of them to do to put high temperature incinerators cost for the national market and there are. many veterans i've spoken to believe that k.b.r.

was merely cutting corners. to save money my understanding is they were given the money to do the incinerators and so it wasn't a budgetary issue this may have been a cheaper way to go this may have been an easier way to go but it certainly wasn't what was best for our soldiers so far in addition to the congressional inspector general investigations that have documented the misconduct there's been hundreds of decorations sworn statements by former employees military officers documenting how the operation of the burn pits was exposing troops to the worst toxins known to man rather than properly disposing of these things like a promise. easy. easy. in a come to find out the board where i was for about six months was built on

a chemical weapons manufacturing storage facility that we bomb a lot of during the war. and there we went build a base there with my understanding to debunk it in with new ground samples as what was already in the ground or contaminated and they found that the most severe illnesses were coming from five different bases in iraq these bases used to be former chemical weapons facilities the saddam hussein operated it was actually told to me by a former k.b.r. employee that they knew the ground was hot meaning it was contaminated. i'm speechless i'm flabbergasted in court i want to talk about these claims that are being served by plaintiff's lawyers who effectively are saying we don't agree with the decisions that were made by the military there were we think there were

safer ways as we said ten years later five years later we think there were safer ways of disposing of waste and somebody should be accountable for not doing it the way that we think was safer or as often suggested that and try to wrap themselves in military and say all this is about is second guessing military decisions about how to dispose of. waste where dispose of waste the problem with that argument that i've seen is that in most cases in fact across the board k.b.r. was wrong making decisions often can see knowing what they were doing from the military. they know it i believe in all these illnesses could have been prevented and in part because they couldn't hear incinerators. them which were offline if they were to found out. in i mean if they would have realized. what we did in the fog of war we got to fix this and they took action to fix it. that's a good thing they didn't. now it turns out there was

something else in the contract because all that wasn't good they had an indemnity clause. so the screw anything up they don't have to pay for it the bill gets stuck on the american taxpayer there will be an indemnification even for negligence unreasonable acts by your managers agents simple if they fall within the definition of what is covered even if they cause injury or death to henri's. that under the provisions of this clause that is correct even if they cause injury or death to civilian employees. under the provisions of the cause that's correct even if they cause injury or death to american soldiers. does not and does not carve out an exception for civilians our soldiers which means that means that if in fact the activities fall within the definition of a clause saying k.b.r.

could could apply for reimbursement that's right even for death or injury to an american soldier that is correct even for death or injury to a british servicemen. that's correct even death or injury to iraqi national or other for world national working on a cave your project. that's correct they were going to get fully reimbursed for every single legal penny they spent as well as any damages found against him and probably one of the biggest bailouts of government contractor that's been documented so far. indemnification is is absolutely criminal if we have over one hundred thousand soldiers ill it just shows it's a good example of how much our government really cares about or soldiers are just pawns. they're angry they're frustrated they feel as though they gave.

everything they have to the us government. they believe doubtless sam had their back when he sent them over to iraq and afghan. stan to fight the war they believe when they came back they didn't take care of. the the military the v.a. are supposed to take care of their veterans. and they're supposed to provide good health care and a good transition out of the military and the military and the v.a. has failed miserably on doing this and not only on the firm put issues but you know a lot of mental health issues and everything else there are.