Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Sued by Their Torturers

[muriel_volestrangler]

'Defense' contractor CACI International has taken the shocking step of suing four former Abu Ghraib detainees who are seeking redress in U.S. courts for the company's role in torturing, humiliating and dehumanizing them, with the U.S. corporation recently requesting that the judge order the plaintiffs—all of whom are Iraqi—to pay CACI for legal costs.

CACI is demanding over $15,000 in compensation, mostly for witness fees, travel allowances and deposition transcripts, according to court documents.

"Given the wealth disparities between this multi-billion dollar entity and four torture victims, given what they went through, it's surprising and appears to be an attempt to intimidate and punish these individuals for asserting their rights to sue in U.S. courts," Baher Azny, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is working on the case, told Common Dreams.

Just weeks ago, a federal judge dismissed the former Abu Ghraib prisoners' lawsuit against CACI International on the grounds that because Abu Ghraib is overseas, it is beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/14-3

CACI obviously felt it had to prove the last trace of humanity had been expelled from the company.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

1. The entire legal team should be put in a pyramid. Lindy England could assist.

[MotherPetrie]

2. Wonder when the Obama administration will weigh in on CACI's side

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. The judge has taken sides before which some people would otherwise not.

"In 2003, Lee dismissed the kidnapping and murder charges against Jay E. Lentz, a former naval intelligence officer, even though a jury had found him guilty. It marked the first time a judge dismissed a jury verdict in a federal death penalty case. Earlier in the case, Lee advised a witness that if she cried he would stop her testimony, a move that is unusual in that it is rare for a judge to preview testimony in a death penalty hearing or restrict how witnesses can act or what they can say."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bruce_Lee

Although Judge Lee overturned the jury verdict, when the case was re-tried before a different judge, the former naval intelligence officer was again found guilty.

In a 2011 free-speech case, Judge Lee ruled in a "summary judgment for the government that a former CIA officer had violated his agreement with the Agency by failing to obtain pre-publication approval for his book."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bruce_Lee

[Solly Mack]

4. Wow. Damn.

That is so low... and yet at the same time, is in keeping with the entire allowing the torturers to go free thinking.

Sick. Sick. Sick.

[Supersedeas]

5. this is the moxie of suits

[dembotoz]

6. if this were on tv no one would believe it--like sharknado on syfy channel

[winter is coming]

7. They shouldn't even have to be prosecuting CACI.

The DOJ should have taken care of this, years ago. Shame.

[CrispyQ]

8. It's time to guillotine some of the corporate behemoths

& send their CEOs & Board members to jail for a very long time.

We rein these monsters in or they will ruin everything.

[DissidentVoice]

9. This would be like the SS suing the inmates of Auschwitz

Horrid.

[Catherina]

10. This is just obscene n/t