On September 14, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press hosted by Tim Russert. ” ‘One of the things to keep in mind,’ Cheney told Russert, ‘is that Halliburton is a unique kind of company. There are very few companies out there that have the combination of very large engineering construction capability and significant oil field services, the first- or second-largest oil field service company in the world, and they’ve traditionally done a lot of work for the U.S. government and the U.S. military. That expertise has stood the military in good stead over the years, but it’s a great company. There are fine people working for it.’ ”
– Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Pages 259-260