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marmar

(77,084 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:01 PM Sep 2013

Insult to injury ...... Welcome to the American justice system !!!!


WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered four Iraqis who were imprisoned at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to pay nearly $14,000 in legal fees to defense contractor CACI, an Arlington, Va.-based company that supplied interrogators to the U.S. government during the Iraq War.

The decision in favor of CACI stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the former prisoners in 2008, alleging that CACI employees directed the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The suit was dismissed in June, when U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled that because the alleged acts took place on foreign soil, CACI was "immune from suit" in U.S. court.

Lee did not, however, directly address the question of whether CACI employees took part in the mistreatment of prisoners. The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib exploded into an international scandal in 2004, when shocking photos emerged of prisoners being stacked on top of each other, threatened with dogs, and sexually abused.

A little over a month after winning the dismissal this summer, CACI requested that the former prisoners be ordered to pay $15,580 to cover the company's legal expenses. .........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/abu-ghraib-iraq_n_3876177.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037



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Insult to injury ...... Welcome to the American justice system !!!! (Original Post) marmar Sep 2013 OP
So there is essentially nothing wholesome or human or ordinary about this system left at all. sibelian Sep 2013 #1
Obscene. MotherPetrie Sep 2013 #2
When going up against a corporate power in US courts, you only have one option ... Scuba Sep 2013 #3
A US company acting on contract with the US government hootinholler Sep 2013 #4
I'd tell CACI to come to Iraq and try to collect it. hobbit709 Sep 2013 #5

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
1. So there is essentially nothing wholesome or human or ordinary about this system left at all.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:03 PM
Sep 2013

No reaction that isn't a twisted labyrinth of wincing, flinching self-perception and self-interest.

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)
4. A US company acting on contract with the US government
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:22 PM
Sep 2013

Can't be sued in US courts if the transgression happens outside of the US?

Hmmm I bet there's plenty of precedent of punishing regular citizens for violating US law outside of the US.

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