Lets take out the most telling paragraph of the whole story:

"The e-mail was sent "in anticipation of controversy over the award of a sole-source contract to Halliburton, we wanted to give the vice president's staff a heads-up," a Pentagon spokesman said."

This folks, is the big controversy. The Dems are stretching a bit. That is why you had to go to some news agency called "Agence France Presse." Please try again.