The Abu Gharib Interogators
 

It seems that the "civilian contractors" that conducted the interogation of the Abu Gharib prisoners were hired by . . .
the interior department. What on earth is the department charged with overseeing the nation's parks and Native American affairs doing in hiring "civilian contractors" in Iraq?

Story Here

I'm worried that these 'civilian contractors' are answereable to noone. Why called it civilian contractors?

Perhaps by having private citizens, and a civilian contractor doing the interrogations and/or abuse, is a way to avoid being brought up on war crimes and other charges? Kind of a safety net if you will?

Information technology services and interrogations, didn't link those two before today!

I think she is right.

Has anyone seen the four guys tapped to run the newly cleaned-up Iraqi prison system?

Hmmm.... all four have questions in their record concerning their running of US prisons... and one had to leave the his job in Nevada over allegations of abuse.... this after Gen. Miller was sent to Iraq to clean up Abu Gharib, but whose methods were pointed out as "not in the spirit" of the Geneava Convention.... it's looking a little systemic to me...

The Fifth Estate on the CBC recently aired an indpeth look into those personally accused of the torture/abuse at Abu Gharib...

It's available online and is pretty interesting, in that they have interviews with some of the soldiers invovled, the commander, and people in the Administration.

Link to website:
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/badapples/index.html

Also includes some transcripts of interviews with one of the legal eagles that authored the memos on what constitutes torture...

Excerpt:

Also please be warned that some images and video may be disturbing... and that some of the images and video shown in the documentary were never released or shown on US media outlets.

Like some renegade college sports team posting hazing pictures on Webshots, some renegade soldiers took pictures of prisoners being mistreated, and sent them to the media.

They Muslims solve their prisoner problems by cutting off heads, and making recruiting videos of their despicable acts.

Sigh... why bother trying to debate with a bigot... just interesting to note that you have taken the same ideological view that those who accuse all US soldiers of abuses or crimes. Both views are equally wrong, and both are equally founded in hatred, ignorance, and bigotry.


For the others out there - can I get an honest opinion of someone who has at least taken the time to either a)watch the program; or b)at least read through the transcripts.

Looks interesting, thanks for posting it. What - "fair and balanced" Fox News didn't show the images? Shocking.

Nor did 'fair and balanced' CNN, or 'fair and balanced' anything for that matter - no need to be a douche.

Fair enough.

The gov't hires a lot of...private companies (although that is not correct either) to do things that they cannot do.

There are some rather large orgs out there that are better equiped and better trained than even our Delta Force (they don't have the heavy equipment), and they go in to areas and do things that would get the US gov't in trouble.

Which, under any other banner, would be considered breaking the law -- or international treaties.

In all fairness if a flash of Janet's boob got the networks into hot water and the FCC in a tizzy, there is no way some of the images and video in this piece would be shown.

Yeah, you guys are right. No matter how I feel about Fox, this really has nothing to do with them.

Once again, let's debate, not call names.