“In the ever-expanding universe of Pentagon contracting, cost is never the problem, public exposure is.”

—  Jeffrey St. Clair

The Making of Halliburton https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/07/14/the-making-of-halliburton/ (July 14, 2005), CounterPunch.

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