Haliburton Cleared/Questionable Use of Question Marks

Haliburton Cleared/Questionable Use of Question Marks

I like how, in a blockbuster story about how HALIBURTON HAS BEEN CLEARED OF ALL WRONGDOING, CNN puts a question mark after their headline ("Haliburton cleared of overcharging?"). compare the headline to the first paragraph of the story, reporduced below.

Army clears Halliburton of overcharging - Jan. 6, 2004

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a Kuwait fuel-delivery contract that Pentagon auditors allege overcharged the U.S. government by more than $100 million, according to a published report Tuesday.

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The paper said Flowers' ruling came after lower-level Army Corps officials concluded that KBR had provided enough information to show it had bought the fuel and its delivery to Iraq at a "fair and reasonable price."

In December, the Pentagon said a draft audit found evidence KBR may have overcharged U.S. taxpayers $61 million to supply fuel to Iraq from Kuwait. Halliburton strongly denied any wrongdoing.

Not that this denial was given ANY credence by the press.