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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:11 PM
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Listen to Randi now if you can
She's discussing a lawsuit that was file against her.

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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:12 PM
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1. Is the Church Lady Brigade at the Heritage Foundation after her....
after that spanking on C-SPAN?
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:14 PM
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6. It relates to a couple of broadcasts she did in august about CACI int
Edited on Wed Oct-12-05 05:18 PM by ralps
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:13 PM
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2. nope
freedom of speech issue.
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:14 PM
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3. Khaki...is that the spelling? They are suing her for millions.
Sounds like she is on solid ground, will fight them. Good luck, Randi.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:15 PM
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7. Isn't that a contracting company that deals with mercenaries? nt
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ohio_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:16 PM
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9. CACI was implicated in the Abu Ghraib abuses
Edited on Wed Oct-12-05 05:16 PM by ohio_liberal
A civilian contractor
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:17 PM
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11. That's what I just figured out. Thank you for your reply. :)
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ohio_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:19 PM
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17. I hadn't listed to those particular shows
Edited on Wed Oct-12-05 05:21 PM by ohio_liberal
I'll have to search

http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Rhodes.html

Aug 25, 26 for anyone interested
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:20 PM
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19. BTW.. through an Executive Order that Bush signed, no contractors in Iraq
can be held liable for what they do.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:14 PM
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4. What is the lawsuit for? Just turned on to the tail end before the break.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:14 PM
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5. link...
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:18 PM
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15. Go to the forum on her message board on her site
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 01:46 PM
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45. I love your Earth logo there. Just about says it all.
:thumbsup:
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 11:53 PM
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50. Thank you!
I just ordered a t-shirt with that design. I hope it turns out nice. :)
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:15 PM
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8. She read documents
on her show about the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghrabi from her show on August 25, 26.

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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:16 PM
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10. They must be the contractors that supplied interrogators at Abu Ghraib.
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:20 PM
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18. Randi has been getting alot of face time and looking good
Edited on Wed Oct-12-05 05:21 PM by DearAbby
they are swiftboating her. She always has solid ground in her facts, she also shows documents that back anything she says. Just trying to smear her name.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:35 PM
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29. Sounds good to me. The Goddess had two Great tv outings! eom
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:18 PM
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13. So are they also suing those who generated the documents she read?
Unless they can prove slander or libel on the part of the generators of the documents, it would be hard to prove the same against someone who merely reported on the documents.

That would be like suing ABC for making a statement like "The Washington Post reported today that XXXXXXX."
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:21 PM
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21. better go get archives of the show before its pulled
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KyndCulture Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:59 PM
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34. The won't get pulled.
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:18 PM
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12. CACI International - Serves the American Military
Edited on Wed Oct-12-05 05:19 PM by IndyOp
IRAQ: CACI Receives Army Contract for Interrogation
<http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11491>

CACI and Its Friends
<http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20040621&s=shorrock>

Shorrock is the author of the recent article "CACI and Its Friends." He said today: "In his now-famous report on Abu Ghraib prison, Major General Antonio Taguba identified Steve Stefanowicz, a civilian interrogator employed by CACI International, as having 'allowed and/or instructed' MPs to abuse and humiliate Iraqi prisoners and as giving orders that he knew 'equated to physical abuse.'... CACI, which has 27 interrogators working under Army command in Iraq, has taken a defiant stance on Taguba's allegations. ... Last year, CACI earned $507 million in IT revenues from the government, making it the country's seventeenth-largest federal IT contractor -- behind the multibillion-dollar leaders Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman but ahead of prominent contractors like Halliburton, Bechtel and AT&T. Sixty-five percent of its revenues came from the Defense Department. ... CACI has friends in high places, including Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage -- a CACI director and consultant from 1999 to 2001, when he joined the Bush administration. ... When he was elected a CACI director in 1999, Armitage was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and president of Armitage Associates, a consulting firm with a long list of powerful clients that included Boeing, Unocal, Texaco, Goldman Sachs and the Brown & Root subsidiary of Halliburton."
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:18 PM
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14. Ok Folks... Who Owns and Runs CACI?
Who's on the Board? Who are the share holders?
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:20 PM
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20. CACI Company Website: Ever Vigilant
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:22 PM
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23. I read its connected to Halliburtan
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:28 PM
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26. Did a search at CACI's site and no mention of Halliburton. eom
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:24 PM
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24. From the Corporate Site
http://caci.com/about/management.shtml

Board of Directors
Dr. J. P. London
(CACI International Inc) - Under Dr. London’s leadership, CACI has grown from a small professional services consulting firm to become a pacesetter in information technology (IT) and communications solutions across markets throughout North America and Western Europe.

Dr. London developed CACI’s business in advanced information systems, systems engineering and logistics sciences. He also engineered CACI’s revenue and profit turnaround in 1984 and 1985 and successfully transformed the company into a more sharply focused information technology organization for broader opportunities in the rapidly changing IT markets.

In 1995 CACI achieved Dr. London’s New Era objectives and set company records for revenue and profit. By 1997 Dr. London had begun the next level of transformation within CACI by repositioning the company to center stage in his vision of the "Network World." These moves, under Dr. London’s direct guidance, led to CACI’s rapid entrée into the information security and Intelligence Community arenas.

Now Dr. London continues to guide CACI in the 21st century by evolving CACI’s legacy distinctions into flexible new solutions with value-added application across today’s expanding technology spectrum. (Joined CACI in 1972, VP 1976, Senior VP 1977, Executive VP 1979, Director 1981, Division President 1982, President and CEO 1984, Chairman 1990.)

Herbert W. Anderson (Outside Director) - former President, Northrop Grumman Information Technology (NGIT) and Corporate VP of Northrop Grumman Corp., retired from the company after 20 years of service. In 1998 he was named President and CEO of Logicon Inc. when Northrop Grumman combined its Data Systems and Services (DSSD) and Logicon subsidiary into a new organization. Beginning in 1994 Mr. Anderson served in executive roles at DSSD. In 1984 he joined Northrop as VP of Information Resources Management for the company’s former B-2 division. In 2001 President George W. Bush appointed Mr. Anderson as a principal member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He currently serves as a member of the Secretary of the Air Force Advisory Group. Mr. Anderson is a former member of the Defense Science Board, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Board, and as a former subcommittee board member of the Aerospace Industries Association. He previously served on the board of the Professional Services Council and the United Services Organization.

Michael J. Bayer (Outside Director) - currently Director Of Duratec Inc., a nuclear facilities operations and radioactive materials disposition company, Vice Chairman of DoD's Business Board and Chairman of the Secretary of the Air Force Advisory Group. He is a member of the U.S. Naval War College Board of Visitors, the Sandia National Laboratory's National Security Advisory Panel, the U.S. Naval War College Board of Advisors and DoD's Science Board. From 1990 to 1992 Mr. Bayer served as a member of the Army Science Board and as its Chairman from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Bayer also served as a member of the board of EG&G Inc., an architectural and engineering company, until its sale to URS Corp. in August 2002.

Peter A. Derow (Outside Director) - currently Director of 101 Communications, LLC, a publisher serving the information technology industry; Globalspec Inc., a site serving engineers; MediaMap, Inc., a site serving journalists and the public relations industry; and Moore Medical, Inc., a distributor of medical products. From 1988 to 1997 Mr. Derow was President and CEO of Institutional Investor, Inc., a publisher of information serving the financial services industry. He also has served as Chairman and President of Newsweek, Director of The Washington Post Company, President of CBS Publishing Group and Senior VP and Director of CBS, Inc.

Richard L. Leatherwood (Outside Director) - currently a director of Dominion Resources, Inc., an integrated gas and electric company. From 1986 to 1991 Mr. Leatherwood was President and CEO of CSX Equipment Group. In 1985 Mr. Leatherwood was Vice Chairman of Chessie System Railroads and Seaboard. From 1983 to 1985 Mr. Leatherwood was President and CEO of Texas Gas Resources Group.

Barbara A. McNamara (Outside Director) - served as NSA's Special U.S. Liaison Officer in London, England until August 2003. She was responsible for representing NSA in its relationships with United Kingdom authorities including the Government Communications Headquarters, the cryptologic organization of the UK. From 1997 to 2000 Ms. McNamara was Deputy Director of NSA. From 1995 to 1997 she was Deputy Director of Operations for NSA. Prior assignments include Executive Director of NSA/Central Security Services (CSS) and NSA/CSS Representative to the DoD. Ms. McNamara is a graduate of both the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. She has been awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award, the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award and the Exceptional Civilian Service Award.

Arthur L. Money (Outside Director) - served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence from 1999 to 2001. He was DoD Chief Information Officer from 1998 to 2001 and Senior Civilian Official, Office of the ASD, from 1998 to 1999. In the Air Force, Mr. Money served as Assistant Secretary for Research Development and Acquisition, and Chief Information Officer. Prior to that Mr. Money was VP and Deputy General Manager of TRW’s Avionics and Surveillance Group and held various positions with ESL Inc. (a subsidiary of TRW) from 1972 to 1994.

Dr. Warren R. Phillips (Outside Director) - CEO of International Initiative, Inc., a personal consulting initiative; Executive Vice Chairman, CEO and Secretary/Treasurer of Maryland Moscow, Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational and training venture; and a director of AMBO, LLC, an Albanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian Oil Company. From 1974 to 2003 Dr. Phillips was Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. From 1999 through 2001 Dr. Phillips was Chairman of the Board of USA Welcome.com, a web-based information source for international visitors. He has also provided consulting in national defense, political sciences and information systems and quantitative analysis for the Department of State, DoD, IBM, Ford Foundation and Bendix Corporation.

Charles P. Revoile (Outside Director) - a legal and business consultant and an independent investor. He was elected a director in 1993 following the conclusion of his seven-year tenure as CACI’s Senior VP, General Counsel and Secretary in 1992. From 1971 to 1985 Mr. Revoile was VP and General Counsel of Stanwick Corporation.

John M. Toups (Outside Director) - Director of Halifax Corporation, a technical services company; NVR, Inc., a home builder; and GTSI Corporation, a provider of integrated information technology solutions. Mr. Toups is also a trustee of INOVA Health System, a not-for-profit hospital system, and a director emeritus of the Professional Services Council. He was formerly a director of PRC, Inc., an information technology services company; Emhart Corporation, an industrial products company; Washington Bancorp, a bank holding company; Washington Gas Light Company, a public utility serving natural gas; and Guest Services, a food services company.

Gen. Larry D. Welch, USAF (Ret.) (Outside Director) - currently a Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a federally chartered research center providing operations, technical, management and information systems analysis for the DoD and other government agencies. From 1997 to 2003 Gen. Welch was President and CEO of IDA. Prior to his retirement from the Air Force in 1990 Gen. Welch was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Air Force; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command; Vice Chief of Staff; Deputy Chief of Staff, Programs and Resources; and Commander, Air Force Central Command.



Key Executives - CACI International Inc
Dr. J. P. London (Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer) - See bio info above
Paul M. Cofoni (President of CACI, Inc. - Federal) - Mr. Cofoni has primary responsibility for all of CACI's domestic, federal, state and local markets. He has more than 30 years of senior-level executive experience in business development, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and extensive federal market operations. His professional experience includes large-scale integrator contracts in the broad federal market sector; the defense, intelligence and communications markets; and major commercial outsourcing and systems markets.

Most recently Mr. Cofoni was President, Federal Sector, of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), reporting to CSC's president and COO. He served previously as President of CSC's Technology Management Group. Before joining CSC Mr. Cofoni enjoyed a 17-year career with General Dynamics in a number of assignments from 1974 to 1991, when his business unit was acquired by CSC. At General Dynamics he served as VP of Information Technology services for both east and west coast business units.

William M. Fairl (Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Operations) - Mr. Fairl is responsible for the company’s four main business groups: National Solutions, Transformation Solutions, Enterprise Technologies and Services, and Missions Systems. He has over 30 years of experience and success in the development, management and growth of technology-based engineering organizations in support of DoD, the Intelligence Community and commercial clients. He joined CACI as a member of the former QuesTech in 1987 as Program Manager for Independent Verification and Validation of the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Combat Direction System. In June 1988 he was named Operations Manager for the company’s San Diego, CA office. He was promoted to VP in 1993, Senior VP in 1996, Executive VP in 2001 and COO in 2005.

Gregory R. Bradford (Chief Executive, CACI Limited, and President, Information Solutions Group) - As head of CACI’s U.K. organization, Mr. Bradford manages lines of business that include marketing information systems, demographic data analysis, census data research and automated systems for targeted market analysis. Mr. Bradford was Managing Director of CACI Limited from 1985 to 2000, one of CACI’s Executive VPs from 1987 to 1993, a Senior VP from 1986 to 1987 and a VP from 1983 to 1986. From 1983 to 1985 Mr. Bradford was our European Legal Counsel. (Joined CACI in 1979.)

Stephen L. Waechter (Executive VP, Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Treasurer) - In addition to the customary duties of a CFO Mr. Waechter heads CACI’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) group. He began his professional career with General Electric in 1974, serving most recently as VP, Finance for GE Information Services from 1989 to 1993. Following this, he served in CFO positions in publicly-owned, technology-driven companies, most recently Government Technology Services, Inc. of Chantilly, VA. He possesses considerable experience in banking, finance and capital structure within the information technology and communications services industry. (Joined CACI in 1999.)



Other Key Executives
Jody A. Brown (Executive VP) Robert V. Donovan (Executive VP)
Randall C. Fuerst (Executive VP) Gilbert B. Guarino (Executive VP)
J. Keith Kellogg (Executive VP) Lawrence King (Executive VP)
Gail E. Phipps (Executive VP) Ronald A. Schneider (Executive VP)
Robert B. Turner (Executive VP)
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 01:53 PM
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46. "...a pacesetter in information technology."
Beating the crap out of people? Psychological torture? That's not new.

Oh, wait. Being given carte blanche by the US government for those things...THAT'S the "pacesetter" part.

Go Randi! Tell them to go where they belong; Hell. :thumbsup:
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:19 PM
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16. link
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:21 PM
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22. Wouldn't Caci
have to give up all their documents and what the hell they are doing in Iraq to prove that Randi is lying (cough). Randi didn't lie. She read a report. Boy they're going to sorry they every did this.
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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 03:54 AM
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42. My thoughts exactly....in fact, this lawsuit in Federal Court could
actually backfire and Randi could end up showing the public through the court system that everything that we have seen at Abu Ghraib has these peoples fingerprints all over it.....

Hmmmmm......talk about Karma coming back at ya.....
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bbgrunt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:27 PM
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25. sounds like what they tried to do to Oprah
I hope she countersues.
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:30 PM
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27. Oh Yeah - she sounds like she is going to fight this
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Synnical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 06:35 PM
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37. That was my first thought, too n/t
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:32 PM
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28. another story on CACI:
Edited on Wed Oct-12-05 05:33 PM by LSK
"When CACI International held a press conference recently, Chairman of the Board Jack London seemed unconcerned about any fallout from his company's entanglement in the gruesome torture scandal unfolding at Abu Ghraib, Iraq. "We are still aggressively recruiting to fill urgent and important assignments and requirements on our contracts based throughout the world," he told Wall Street analysts. "To date we have received no communication from the Defense Department concerning termination of any contracts, any delivery orders, any activities, any where in the world. And we do not expect any."

London wasn't just whistling in the dark. In many ways, London could be considered the spiritual heir of J. Edgar Hoover. The last place the federal government wants to see CACI International is a courtroom.

Two CACI contractors were named in an Army report on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. Major General Antonio M. Taguba said he suspected the two "were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses." But as of the second week in May, neither individual had been disciplined or recalled from Iraq. According to London, the company had received no formal request for such action from the U.S. government as of May 5, nearly a week after the story broke in the national media. "

snip


http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/corporate/caci_internatonal/

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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:41 PM
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30. Shouldn't this
get kicked pretty quick? These guys are evil.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:44 PM
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31. nominated
This should be on the greatest. This could totally backfire on CACI and the Bush Admin.
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:45 PM
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32. You think
that they would have learned their lesson from out Mrs. Wilson.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 05:57 PM
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33. Hmm, will this allow her to subpeona the Abu Graib materials?
That would be interesting, indeed.

-Hoot
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KyndCulture Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 06:00 PM
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35. Yes, she gets discovery... this could be great! nt
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 06:34 PM
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36. I can't find
one news article on this.
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 06:57 PM
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38. Is this what they are doing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

Big dog kicking the little dog.

Strategic lawsuit against public participation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A strategic lawsuit against public participation ("SLAPP") is a form of litigation filed by a large corporation or in some cases, an individual plaintiff to intimidate and silence a less powerful critic by so severely burdening them with the cost of a legal defense that they abandon their criticism. The acronym was coined in the 1980s by University of Colorado professors Penelope Canan and George W. Pring.



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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:33 PM
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39. Maybe this will be her version of O'Reilly/Fox suing Al Franken
Great for publicity.

Plus, she's a fighter. They're gonna regret this.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 07:42 PM
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40. BRING IT ON!!!! CACI will have to produce lotsa' records!!!
Yummy!!! And they can't assert bullshit like "state secrets" and "executive privilege some such stuff!!! They HAVE to disclose 'cause they ain't got no guburnentil immunities!!!

:woohoo:
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-05 08:56 PM
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41. Found a transcript
Edited on Wed Oct-12-05 09:01 PM by warrior1
From and Thank you: Daily Kos and resident alian
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/10/12/183939/76/102#102

partial transcript from Randi (4.00 / 9)

I'm at a console listening to streaming Air America, so I got a chance to transcribe her statement on the air today at the top of her 4th hour:

"On this show, on August 25th and 26th, I discussed with you (our listeners) many issues relating to operations in the ongoing war in Iraq. And on the 25th of August, I read you materials about the treatment of prisoners in Iraq, including excerpts from Marjorie Cohn's interview with Army Reserve Brigadeer General Janis Karpinski, who is now retired as a Colonel, and you might remember that Janis Karpinski was in charge of the Abu Ghraib prison, where prisoners were tortured and mistreated by American soldiers. And in the course of my show, I may have mentioned CACI, a corporation, and on the 26th I talked about the war, and I had an interview with Cindy Sheehan. Remember that? Well, about a month after those broadcasts, CACI PT and CACI International, two multimillion-dollar companies started a lawsuit against me and Piquant, which is the company that owns Air America. In the lawsuit, which they started in federal court in Virginia, CACI PT and CACI International claim we committed defamation per se because I allegedly made 'a number of false and defamatory statements about CACI' on my show, on August 25th and 26th.

"CACI PT claims to be a corporation that 'specializes in intelligence solutions and has provided intelligence services, including interrogators, to the United States military in Iraq, pursuant to contracts with the United States.' CACI International, Inc. claims to be 'an international corporation providing high technology and professional services, specializing in systems integration, managed network solutions, and information assurance.' According to CACI International's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that are posted on CACI's website, the company has about 1.6 billion dollars in revenues in fiscal year 2005. Now you can read more about these companies on their website, caci.com, if you like. These two CACI companies allege that Piquant and I defamed them when I made alleged statements about their work for the US government. They claim that I should pay no less than one million dollars in compensatory damages and no less than ten million dollars in punitive damages. Their lawyers in the suit are Steptoe & Johnson, a major Washington, DC law firm.

"As with all of the shows that I do for you, I prepare thoroughly before I get on the air, and for those shows in August, when I spoke about the events in Iraq, I relied on several sources, including reliable published materials, and I made many of these sources available to you on the website for my show, therandirhodesshow.com, and they are still available at that address. I spoke about these things and these events because they're important in the political life of this country. I believe they were newsworthy because of their importance to the war and the future of Iraq and because they involve disgraceful abuses of power. Nonetheless, in their lawsuit, CACI challenges my right to speak out on matters of public interest.

"So I'm fighting back. I'm going to dispute their allegations. I have an unfettered right to free speech protected by the First Amendment. This right includes my right to speak as I did on my show in August, and I believe there is no merit to CACI's allegations against me and Piquant. Moreover, among the many defenses to a defamation claim is the defense that truth is a complete defense. So I look forward to the progress of this lawsuit in which, during the discovery process, I anticipate that CACI will have to provide me with all information they have that disputes anything I said about CACI during my August 25th and 26th shows. And when that information is released, I believe that I, this company Piquant, and the truth will prevail. So now you know."

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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 08:25 AM
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43. From a bloger
http://g10.blogspot.com/2005/10/randi-sued-by-caci-in-slapp-suit.html

snip

DEFAMATION
Onto the claim against Randi. Any first year law student can tell you the ultimate defense to defamation is truth. The fun is in proving the truth of the allegations at trial. See, if CACI were serious about this suit, it would have to engage in discovery and Randi would have access to records to prove the allegations of torture were true.

But CACI isn't serious about this suit. It's a scare tactic, and having listened to Randi, it's not going to work. Because for every slander and libel suit CACI files, there will be dozens of prisoner abuse suits (plus Taguba's report) that provide a reasonable basis for the claim that CACI was a torture contractor.
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zalinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 09:06 AM
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44. The problem is they are looking to break them
financially. They have much more money than Randi or AAR, so they brought the suit.

zalinda
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melissinha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 02:37 PM
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47. scary
do you think this is a reason that she isn't in today????


I mean, these guys look like the BIG DOGS, but they don't have public support like Randi. THey think she's some little piddling radio personality, but she is by far the most popular Left Wing host and she has an ARMY of people who will have her back and destroy these pigs.
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MamaBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 02:43 PM
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48. Exactly.
I hope we are all ready to pony up to Randi's defense fund. This could cost millions before they are through.

CACI has nothing to lose here, and tens of millions and hoardes of corporate lawyers at its disposal to fight discovery, file endless motions, and pursue appeals.

I think they may be trying to legislate from the bench, to create case law that may limit free expression when the information being given could possibly be detrimental to a corporation's bottom line.

We all might want to keep a few bucks in reserve for this. Randi and the network are going to need our help, and maybe sooner rather than later.
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ConservativeDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-13-05 03:38 PM
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49. If Randi was smart...
...she'd get a good lawyer to file counter-claims (a counter suit under the same name) for things like torturous interference (which is essentially what a SLAPP is). That way, these guys couldn't just drop the suit when it started to go the wrong way. They'd be on the hook for discovery.

More than once, corrupt businessmen who have tried to play games with the law have had it come back to bite them -- badly.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
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