Bunnatine (Bunny) H. Greenhouse is a former chief contracting officer

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(Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC)) of the

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. On June 27, 2005, she testified to a Congressional panel, alleging specific instances of waste, fraud, and other abuses and irregularities by

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with regard to its operations in

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since the 2003 invasion. She described one of the Halliburton contracts (secret,

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s awarded to Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)—a subsidiary of Halliburton) as "the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career". A long-time government employee, Greenhouse was hired by Lieutenant General Joe Ballard in 1997 to oversee contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers. After Ballard retired in 2000, Greenhouse's performance reviews, which had been exemplary throughout her public career, suddenly soured. Greenhouse filed an

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(EEOC) complaint alleging race and gender discrimination, which her attorney states has never been investigated. In August 2005, she was demoted in what her lawyer called an "obvious reprisal" for her revelations about the Halliburton contracts. On July 25, 2011, The U.S. District Court in Washington, DC approved awarding Greenhouse $970,000 in full restitution of lost wages, compensatory damages and attorney fees. In June 2019, Greenhouse was featured on an episode of ''

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'' on CBS, named "Bunny's War: The Case Against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers".

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of her high school, Greenhouse earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from

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and master's degrees from the University of Central Texas,

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, and the

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. She is the elder sister of basketball Hall-of-Famer

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