Are These Contractors Nazi Rightwingers?

[stepnw1f]

I'm serious... where the f*ck did this administration find the scum to allow this shit to happen in our name. We have ex pro-apartheid contractors and weird ass rightwing loons raping/torturing prisoners? These people are evil as shit. And now we have them working for companies that are no longer answerable to our government!?

These fuckers pulled a coup on our government.

[atreides1]

1. Where were they found??

Probably the same place that the military found men and women willing to abuse and torture prisoners, in the good old USofA.

Land of the Freepers and Home of the..., well not the brave that's for sure, not in any large groups anyway!!!!

[Rick Myers]

2. Frontline TONIGHT "Private Armies"

And read "Iraq, Inc., A Profitable Occupation." TOO many horror stories. And these 'contractors' do not respect nor obey the Army or Marines on the ground over there...

[Frederik]

3. CACI and Richard Armitage

Richard Armitage (of Iran-Contras fame) was member of the board of CACI before he joined the Bush administration as Deputy Secretary of State. CACI contractors were involved in the Abu Ghraib torture and instructed the MPs on torture techniques.

"So who is Richard Armitage? None other than a former board member of CACI--the private contractor that employed four interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison--interrogators who worked with the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade there.

General Taguba singled out one of these CACI interrogators in his report on prison abuses at Abu Ghraib. He was Steven Stefanowicz, former naval intelligence and Adelaide resident for 18 months until October 2002. Stefanowicz emailed a friend in early May of this year that he had seen enough of Iraq and wanted to come back to Adelaide. Immigration Minister Vanstone replied that his application would be reviewed just like any other application. Since then Stefanowicz has apparently decided to stay in the U.S., where he apparently returned in late May.

Meanwhile, CACI is being investigated by no less than 5 US agencies for possible contract violations. According to The Washington Post, CACI has some 92% of its contracts in defense, and many wonder how they got the contracts. Having friends in high places never hurts.

Apparently hiring interrogators for prison use was not specified in CACI's contracts (obtained through the Interior Department--but, strangely, administered by the Defense Department). Abu Ghraib prison MPs are being court martialled for their actions against prisoners, including torture and sexual abuse--as they should. But one of the key "team leaders"--Steven Stefanowicz--is home free because he is not employed by the U.S. government. He cannot be court martialled--because he is a civilian!"

http://counterpunch.org/palmer06152004.html

[stepnw1f]

4. Thank You Frederik

These people are Nazis...