  Though Halliburton admitted to the Pentagon that two KBR (a Halliburton subsidiary) employees were bribed $6 million to give a Kuwaiti company supply contracts and has overcharged the U.S. government, Vice President Cheney still says Halliburton is being " urlLink unfairly maligned " for its association with the Vice President. I think Halliburton legitimately has a case for saying that some of these actions were by bad apples rather than part of company policy.
But I don't think Halliburton is getting unfavorable press because of its past assocation with Cheney. I think, in fact, that Cheney's overly supportive comments on the troubles of his former company have actually increased popular scrutiny of Halliburton. His favorable remarks are being juxtaposed against the damnable actions of the company, creating what many see as a newsworthy contradiction. If his comments were less supportive, I believe there would be less dissonance between what people are seeing and Cheney's comments, and people would care less. 
