Home > The Abu Ghraib Scandal - What’s next ?
The next phase will be exposing the, ahem, third country nationals link and ’sinister’ involvement in far too many issues for comfort...(John Israel and CACI)...
The smaller but wider in scope and activities of the CIA and proxies/contractors, both independantly and in conjunction with the DOD/WH policies resulting in exra-legal international kidnappings, tortures and murder followed by the subsequent dissapearance of the body.
What about the Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) three ? All criminal charges dropped when the DOD would have to produce the ’pornographic’ evidence. Hmmm, what photo’s and film at Gitmo would have been classified and also considered pornographic ?
Do not uderestimate the brutal effectiveness of an offshoot of the stupidity of torture for interrogation and intelligence collection, the psyops project to deniably coerce co-operation of others, consider the culture and religuos aspects...
Bush & Cos credibility is now past the tipping point, I would suggest, therefore a real terrorist event of magnitude or a manufactured one is only likely to further destroy that now minority trust, faith and credibility...damnit says Rove...;)
Just as Black Ops are compartmented to avoid inconveniences such as laws both international and domestic, as well as oversight, don’t you think ’Black’ training programs for selected ’faithful’ would also NOT be common knowledge or goddamnit on the official syllabus at Fort Huachuca (Iterrogation training, the formerly infamous School of the Americas)...after all it is SPECIFICALLY a crime to offer, run or develop such training thanks to Congressman Leahy...?
The real short term danger I suggest is thier own blind ignorance and collective arrogance...they were in a hole and simply dug deeper with the Nick Berg affair...it DID’NT in the end help thier cause...oh and now there are unsubtantiated intelligence reports Al-Zaraqawi did’nt have a false leg...
Re Zarqawi and his vanishing prosthesis - Given the experience this guy allegedly has with chemical and biological weapons, do you think he might have done even more fiendish research since the last Intel report on him AND GROWN A NEW LEG?
Phew, Al-Zarqawi and co from Al Ansar Islam must be veritable Uber-terrorists, superhuman terrorists on steroids, given the actions they are consistently attributed by our Intelligence agencies, etc..."the truth is a lie which is yet to be discovered..."
I put to you it is a formal official policy to LIE to us...also consider Al Ansar Islam is NOT an ofshoot of Al Qaeda, it is a competing terrorist group, and it’s membership was severely bloodied and shattered early in the Iraq invasion by multi-tier ops in Nth Iraq...they are used as a stalking horse and scapegoat to maintain the racism, hate and fear...
200 foriegn organised fighters is the mantra.
Any theme the Intelligence services or Military spokesmen emphasis repetitively must be considered as questionable without corroborated independant evidence...go back and read Joe Ryans diary re foriegn fighters...consider the Fallujah new Iraqi Brigade..."...there are’nt any foreign fighters..."...
Consider the persistent unsubtantiated vague allegations from various sources of Iranian and Syrian sinister activites , direct involvement and evil crimes...purely to develop over time a subconscious seed in the domestic and foreign audience the foundation to build upon that lie later to justify future crimes...Psyops/Propaganda...domestic and foreign...
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28 May 2004, 21:42
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The company is saddened and disgusted over the photographs that appeared in the media concerning abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The company is also saddened by the tragic pictures of people jumping out of the windows of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. And the company is saddened by the horrible pictures of American contractors’ charred mutilated bodies hung from the bridge girders in Fallujah. They are the unfortunate additions to the tragic inventory of images we are seeing from current events.
There are some aspects of your article that we would like to respond to or additional factual information we would like you to have.
CACI is aware of multiple investigations underway but knows at this time of allegations only against one employee as set forth in the illegally released (leaked) classified (SECRET/NO-FOREIGN] Taguba report (one report in a number of reports conducted as part of an ongoing investigation that has not been concluded), which has not been publicly confirmed.
Mr. John Israel was incorrectly identified as a CACI employee in the leaked sections of the report issued by Major General Antonio M. Taguba regarding allegations of abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. Mr. Israel is not now and never has been an employee of CACI.
CACI’s interrogators are qualified as required by a Statement of Work. The U.S. military’s Statement of Work provides specific criteria for interrogators. CACI employees are monitored and are under direct supervision of the U.S. Army. This was exactly as set forth in CACI services contract to the Army, and CACI has carried it out faithfully.
CACI interrogators were pre-qualified by CACI management both here in the United States and on the ground in Iraq. CACI employee interrogators are U.S. citizens. At all times the U.S. government has had and continues to have oversight of CACI’s employees reporting for work.
The Statement of Work requires individuals with information-gathering and analysis experience at the tactical and operational levels and such people need to possess at a minimum a Department of Defense Secret-level security clearance, which requires U.S. government background checks on the individuals. The Statement of Work further specifies that the U.S. military will provide readiness training and briefings on rules of engagement and general orders applicable to U.S. armed forces, DoD civilians and U.S. contractors. This includes abiding by the Geneva Conventions.
CACI employees are monitored and are under direct supervision of the US Army. This was exactly as set forth in CACI services contract to the Army, and CACI has carried it out faithfully. All CACI employees work under the monitoring and supervision of the U.S. military chain of command in Iraq. CACI personnel have no management, supervisory or command authority whatsoever over any non-CACI personnel.
In the Senatorial hearing of Friday May 6, 2004, when asked “What are the roles of contractors and who supervises them?” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld replied that they are “responsible to military intelligence who hire them and have the responsibility for supervising them.” Acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee added, “In the theatre we have employed civilian contract interrogators and linguists, the central command has done this, and these people have no supervisory capabilities at all. They work under the supervision of officers in charge or noncommissioned officers in charge of whatever team or unit they are on. And they, most of them, are retired military and they are usually of the skill that they retired in and that is what they are employed for, and they assist in these processes. But they are not in a supervisory role.” General Smith also added, “In this particular case there is a Tiger Team that interrogates and goes through that process. One is an interpreter normally, one is an analyst and one is an interrogator. And where we have a shortage in the military of interrogators and translators we go to contractors to do that.” Questions about supervision in Iraq should not be confused with intensity of supervision. The military supervised CACI employees in Iraq, and our employees tell us that military personnel regularly monitored them as they performed interrogations.
CACI has supported the U.S. Army’s investigation since it began several months ago at which time CACI personnel in Iraq volunteered to be interviewed by Army officials in connection with that investigation.
CACI will continue to cooperate with all U.S. Government investigations when requested and is now conducting its own internal investigation and analysis of events. CACI has retained outside counsel to investigate any pending actions against any CACI employee’s performance relating to prisoner abuse matters. The company does not condone, tolerate or in any way endorse illegal behavior or inappropriate behavior on the part of any employee in any circumstance, at any time, anywhere.
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