Contractor Protests 'biased' Treatment At Hearing

"And given the bias expressed toward KBR, the conclusions made with a slim evidentiary record, and the narrow focus, it is hard to recognize the Truman Committee in this current effort," Bodie wrote.

The commission responded to Bodie's swipe by e-mailing the AP a quote from Harry Truman, who chaired the World War II oversight committee as a Missouri senator.

"I have had considerable experience in letting public contracts," Truman said more than six decades ago, "and I have never yet found a contractor who, if not watched, would not leave the government holding the bag."

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