Marcus Baram
Huffington Post
NEW YORK — Taxpayers may be on the hook if U.S. military contractors in Iraq incur liability while carrying out their work.
More than 120 military contracts include indemnification clauses — essentially, promises that the Pentagon will pick up the tab if contractors are sued. The information was disclosed on Thursday in response to an inquiry by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), who was concerned that contractor Kellogg Brown Root was granted indemnity amid a lawsuit claiming that the Halliburton subsidiary knowingly exposed soldiers to cancer-causing chemicals in Iraq, as previously reported by The Huffington Post.
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