Abu Ghraib
In a landmark decision nearly two decades after the infamous Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a U.S. federal jury has awarded $42 million to three Iraqi men who endured torture and abuse at the hands of American personnel and contractors. The verdict holds CACI Premier Technology, Inc., a defense contractor, liable for conspiring in the mistreatment of detainees.
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Private defense contractor CACI International to be punished for an incident in Abu Ghraib years ago
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos — The names Lynddie England, Janice Karpinski and Charles Granier became synonymous with the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. But we know now that those who directed the torture from the Pentagon, who set the conditions on the ground in that prison, were never held truly accountable. The only ones who did time were the low-ranking National Guardsmen and intelligence officers. Then-Brigadier Gen. Karpinski (who didn’t go to jail but was relieved of her command and was demoted in rank) was clearly the scapegoat among the top brass.
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A defense contractor that supplied interrogators to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq argued Friday that it can't be sued for abuses that occurred there because its employees were working in tandem with military personnel whose judgment about conducting wartime operations shouldn't be questioned by a federal judge.
Four former inmates at Abu Ghraib sued a subsidiary of Arlington-based CACI International Inc. back in 2008, saying CACI employees conspired to torture them to soften them up for interrogations.
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