Don't mess with the profiteers. If you step between Haliburton and their cozy insider, no-complete guaranteed deals with the Army, you get squashed. (NYTimes)

Ms. Greenhouse fought the demotion through official channels, and publicly described her clashes with Corps of Engineers leaders over a five-year, $7 billion oil-repair contract awarded to Kellogg Brown & Root. She had argued that if urgency required a no-bid contract, its duration should be brief.