James Woolsey with Jon Stewart on Daily Show video

PNAC James Woolsey thumbed Iraq on the night of 9/11 youtube

Suzanne H. Woolsey is a trustee of a little-known arms consulting group that had access to senior Pentagon leaders directing the Iraq war. In January, she joined the board of Fluor Corp. Soon afterward, Fluor and a joint-venture partner won about $1.6 billion in reconstruction contracts in Iraq.

Fluor and human rights
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Fluor is facing a multi-billion dollar lawsuit from past workers in South Africa that claim the huge engineering company exploited, intimidated and brutalized employees under the apartheid regime. [4][5]

BP and Fluor employees died
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On March 23, 2005, an explosion occurred at BP's Texas City Refinery in Texas City, Texas. It is the third largest refinery in the United States and one of the largest in the world, processing 433,000 barrels of crude oil per day and accounting for 3% of that nation's gasoline supply. Over 100 were injured, and 15 were confirmed dead, including employees of the Fluor Corporation as well as BP. BP has since accepted that its employees contributed to the accident. Level indicators failed, leading to overfilling of a heater, and light hydrocarbons spread throughout the area. An unidentified ignition source set off the explosion. [1]

Former CIA dicrector James Woolsey and Booz, Allen & Hamilton
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Wall Street Journal
March 03, 2008

BOSTON, March 3, 2008 - LAWFUEL - Legal Newswire - Goodwin Procter LLP today announced that R. James Woolsey has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as of counsel. Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Woolsey served as a vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton in its energy practice since 2002. He had previously practiced with Shea & Gardner for 22 years. (In 2004, Goodwin Procter and Shea & Gardner combined, creating a litigation, regulatory and public policy team of over 100 attorneys in Washington, D.C.)

Fluor and BP
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Fluor Wins $3.8 Billion BP Whiting Modernization Project
Wednesday, August 13th 2008
Fluor Corporation announced that the company was awarded multiple contracts by BP America for its Whiting (Ind.) Refinery modernization project. Fluor is responsible for overall program and construction management, engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction. For this phase of the modernization project, Fluor will book $3.8 billion into backlog in the third quarter of 2008.


Alan Boeckmann and Fluor
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61 Years Old
Mr. Boeckmann is also a director of BHP Billiton, Melbourne, Australia. He has also served as a director of Archer Daniels Midland Company (Decatur, Illinois) and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (Fort Worth, Texas) in the last five years. Mr. Boeckmann's experience as Chief Executive Officer of Fluor Corporation and his 36 years of experience with the company give him a deep knowledge of the company's challenges, opportunities and operations. Additionally, his service as a director of other global public companies allows him to bring a diverse knowledge of strategy, finance and operations to our Board.

Fluor
Fluor wins contract to design solar power plant

Fluor wins engineering contract to design solar power plant for eSolar, value not disclosed

AP News

Aug 25, 2009 18:52 EDT

Fluor Corp. said Tuesday it won an engineering contract to design a solar power plant for eSolar Inc.

Fluor declined to disclose the value of the contract for the 46-megawatt plant but said the amount was booked in the third quarter.

The engineering and construction company hopes to benefit from rising demand for renewable energy.

Irving-based Fluor said it would begin work immediately and study improvements in performance and cost of plants. The company wants to come up with a design package for Pasadena, Calif.-based eSolar that could be used by developers worldwide.

Fluor shares fell 52 cents to $54.96. In extended trading, they gained 34 cents to $55.30.

James Woolsey
EXCERPT:Robert James Woolsey Jr. (born September 21, 1941) is a foreign policy specialist and former Director of Central Intelligence and head of the Central Intelligence Agency (February 5, 1993 - January 10, 1995).

[edit] Early life
Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he graduated from Tulsa Central High School. In 1963 he received his BA from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), and in 1965 his MA from Oxford University — where he was a Rhodes Scholar — and an LLB from Yale Law School in 1968.

Woolsey was founder and president of Yale Citizens for Eugene McCarthy for President from 1967 to 1968. He was prominently active in the anti-Vietnam War movement.[1]

[edit] Career
Woolsey has been known primarily as a neoconservative Democrat[2][3] — hawkish on foreign policy issues but liberal on economic and social issues. He endorsed Senator John McCain for president and served as one of McCain's foreign policy advisors.[4] He has called himself a "Scoop Jackson Democrat" and a "Joe Lieberman Democrat", with "social democratic" domestic views. He regards the label 'neoconservative' as a "silly term".[1]

Woolsey has held important positions in both Democratic and Republican administrations. His influence has been felt during the administrations of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Woolsey is known as well recently for clearly articulating the national security argument in support of moving away from fossil fuels and towards distributed generation. He also advocates for measures to fight global warming and against global warming skeptics.[1]

Fluor and James Woolsey's wife
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Suzanne H. Woolsey is a trustee of a little-known arms consulting group that had access to senior Pentagon leaders directing the Iraq war. In January, she joined the board of Fluor Corp. Soon afterward, Fluor and a joint-venture partner won about $1.6 billion in reconstruction contracts in Iraq.

Woolsey's husband, the former CIA director, R. James Woolsey, a leading advocate for the war, also serves as a government policy adviser. He, too, works for a company with war-related interests.

The Woolseys' overlapping affiliations are part of a pattern in Washington, in which individuals play key roles in organizations advising officials on major policy issues, whileinvolving themselves with businesses in related fields.

Carbon Swindle (Gore and James Woolsley)
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Reilly is co-author of a recent report, "Allocating Allowances in a Greenhouse Gas Trading System"—a how-to booklet for trading in carbon—published by the National Commission on Energy Policy. Launched in November 2002, the NCEP's founding 20 members included Andrew Lundquist, the Executive Director of the 2001 Dick Cheney Energy Taskforce; R. James Woolsey, former CIA Director and long-time Al Gore neo-con advisor, William K. Reilly; John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, and other notables. Funding agencies include the MacArthur Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trust and others.

KBRs Cayman Island Scam

By: emptywheel Thursday March 6, 2008 2:21 pm Tweet Share

I recommend you read the whole article detailing KBR’s Cayman Island scam. A lot of people have linked to the lede, explaining how KBR created a shell company in Cayman Islands so it didn’t have to pay social security and unemployment benefits for workers hired through the shell company. But there are several details of note that appear further down in the story.

For example, KBR would like you to believe that it set up this shell company to help you, Mr. and Ms. American Taxpayer. It saves you money, it claims, by making these workers pay their own social security and go without unemployment insurance.

It’s bogus on its face. But deep in the article, an anonymous former KBR exec reveals that it’s actually using the shell company so it can compete against its rivals Fluor and Bechtel.

A former Halliburton executive who was in a senior position at the company in the early 1990s said construction companies that avoid taxes by setting up foreign subsidiaries have obvious advantages in bidding for military contracts.