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Line 1: [[File:Bunny Greenhouse at New America.jpg\|right\|thumb\|Greenhouse speaks at [[New America (organization)\|New America]] in 2019]] '''Bunnatine (Bunny) H. Greenhouse''' is a former chief contracting officer [[Senior Executive Service]] (Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC)) of the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]]. On June 27, 2005, she testified to a Congressional panel, alleging specific instances of waste, fraud, and other abuses and irregularities by [[Halliburton]] with regard to its operations in [[Iraq]] since the [[2003 invasion of Iraq\|2003 invasion]]. She described one of the Halliburton contracts (secret, [[no-bid contract]]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".<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801796_pf.html\|title=A Web of Truth: Whistle-Blower or Troublemaker, Bunny Greenhouse Isn't Backing Down\|~~work~~newspaper=Washington Post\|first=Neely \|last=Tucker\|date=October 19, 2005}}</ref> A long-time government employee, Greenhouse was hired by Lieutenant General [[Joe N. Ballard\|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 [[Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]] (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.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.pbs.org/now/politics/greenhouse.html\|first=David \|last=Brancaccio \|title=Bunnatine Greenhouse \|work=NOW\|publisher=PBS\|date=October 14, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/25/national/main3203792.shtml\|title=Iraq Whistleblowers Vilified, Demoted\|first=Scott \|last=Conroy\|work=CBS News\|agency=Associated Press\|date=August 25, 2007}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/a-bittersweet-win-for-a-whistleblower/2011/07/26/gIQA8pJUbI_story.html\|title=A bittersweet win for a federal whistleblower\|~~work~~newspaper=Washington Post\|first=Joe \|last=Davidson\|date=July 26, 2011}}</ref> In June 2019, Greenhouse was featured on an episode of ''[[Whistleblower (American TV program)\|Whistleblower]]'' on [[CBS]], named "Bunny's War: The Case Against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers".<ref>{{cite episode \|title=Bunny's War: The Case Against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Opioid Lollipops: The Case Against Cephalon \|url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/whistleblower/video/5Eeit2Q51CvfowwyP1KS4BR0H57sEM4i/whistleblower-bunny-s-war-the-case-against-the-us-army-corps-of-engineers-opioid-lollipops-the-case-against-cephalon/ \|series=Whistleblower \| series-link=Whistleblower (American TV program)\|first1=Alex \|last1=Ferrer \|network=CBS \|date=June 28, 2019}}</ref> ==Personal life== The [[valedictorian]] of her high school, Greenhouse earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from [[Southern University]] and master's degrees from the [[University of Central Texas]], [[George Washington University]], and the [[Industrial College of the Armed Forces]]. She is the elder sister of basketball Hall-of-Famer [[Elvin Hayes]].<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801796_pf.html\|title=A Web of Truth: Whistle-Blower or Troublemaker, Bunny Greenhouse Isn't Backing Down\|~~work~~newspaper=Washington Post\|first=Neely \|last=Tucker\|date=October 19, 2005}}</ref> ==See also== Line 20 ⟶ 22: {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenhouse, Bunny}} [[Category:~~Year~~1944 ~~of birth missing (living people)~~births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American whistleblowers]] ~~[[Category:Military–industrial complex]]~~ [[Category:Southern University alumni]] [[Category:George Washington University alumni]]