Scottish government hires firm accused of torture at Abu Ghraib to be census takers

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2410437.0.scottish_government_hires_firm_accused_of_torture_in_iraq.php

American census contractor facing trial on human rights abuses in Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib jail

By Neil Mackay

A FIRM ACCUSED of torturing Iraqi prisoners at the infamous Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad has been hired by the Scottish government to carry out the nation's next census.

Granting CACI (UK) - a subsidiary of the firm accused of torture - the £18.5 million contract has not only badly wounded the SNP government's claims of being more ethical than Labour and putting human rights at the top of its agenda, but has also led to fears personal data on millions of Scots collected by the company might be sifted by the US government given the close relationship between the Bush administration and the CACI head office in Arlington, Virginia.

Scotland's leading human rights campaigners have damned the appointment, accusing the SNP of selling its soul, and raised the spectre of a mass boycott of the census by the nation's population.

[Arctic Dave]

1. If they come to your house, do like I do, LIE.

The questions they ask are far more personal then any government needs to do their work.
If someone from Blackwater came to my house and started asking me questions I would probably go to jail and they would go to the hospital.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. New World Order?

:scared:

[EFerrari]

3. The recently retired CEO of CACI gave an In Depth interview

on BookTV -- it was an hourlong defense of CACI. He was hawking a book to "clear" CACI's name and said they were out of the interrogation business.

I don't knw if I believed him.

The Center for Constitutional Rights has more than one active case against them, iirc.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. This reminds me of an old thread of mine...

About McCain's link to Abu Ghraib through CACI's Arizona branch office, which just so happens to be "a stone's throw from the headquarters of the Army's main interrogation school."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3266565&mesg_id=3266565