Privatizing Abu Ghraib (CACI, Titan, Pappas, Jordan, Israel, Stefanowicz)

[Alerter_]

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1784

"Specifically," Taguba wrote, "I suspect that Col. Thomas M. Pappas, LTC Steve L. Jordan, Mr. Steven Stephanowicz, and Mr. John Israel were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and strongly recommend immediate disciplinary action."


http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1084659009373&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

Of the 37 interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison, 27 did not belong to the U.S. military but to a Virginia private contractor called CACI International. Twenty-two linguists who assisted them were employed by California-based Titan International.

Two of these workers were cited in Maj.-Gen. Anthony Taguba's damning report on the "sadistic, blatant and wanton" treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib 1A cellblock.

Unlike the seven reservist guards facing criminal trials and military intelligence officers under investigation, interrogator Steven Stefanowicz and translator John Israel face no accountability, let alone punishment. Being civilians, they are not subject to military law nor to the Geneva Convention.

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An extraterratoriality law that would have made civilian contractees subject to U.S. domestic law sits stalled on Solicitor-General John Ashcroft's desk.

The two men likely will be fired, though neither CACI nor Titan has so far said so. That's all that happened in 1999 in Bosnia after several employees of another firm, DynCorp, were accused of statutory rape and running a child-prostitution ring.

[pinto]

1. an alliance of the corporate world with the military and the state solely

to further the state's political goals is called fascism.

Eisenhower, a Republican president who fought fascism, warned of the military/industrial complex over forty years ago.

[Alerter_]

2. remember the "red phone" Bush has to CEOs?

[pinto]

3. no. What's with that?

[Alerter_]

4. read it on DU somewhere

A detail was dropped in some article that there is a "red phone" network set up for conferencing the CEO of major US Corporations. This, while the Constitutional State Governments have been complaining that they have no access to the federal government anymore.