DoD IG backs off Iraq electrocutions report

DoD IG backs off Iraq electrocutions report

By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jul 30, 2008 18:33:10 EDT

An interim Pentagon investigation found no “credible evidence” that contractor KBR, Inc., was aware of life-threatening conditions at the Baghdad building where a Green Beret was electrocuted in January while taking a shower.

At a Wednesday hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, however, the Pentagon’s acting inspector general backed off that report, which had been released to Congress this week, trumpeted by the committee’s Republican staff and reported Tuesday by the Associated Press.

“We have absolved no one,” said Gordon Heddell. “Let the record be clear on that.”

Heddell admitted that his investigators had not known of new evidence that the committee’s Democrats said demonstrated culpability on the part of KBR, which holds a multibillion dollar contract to provide a wide variety of services in Iraq, including building maintenance.
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