Army Gives Contract to Company in Jail Scandal

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-contract5aug05,1,3952058.story

Army Gives Contract to Company in Jail Scandal
By T. Christian Miller
Times Staff Writer

August 5, 2004

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army on Wednesday announced the award of a no-bid contract worth up to $23 million to CACI International Inc. to continue providing private interrogators to gather intelligence in Iraq.

The contract came just as the Interior Department was preparing to cancel the existing contract with Virginia-based CACI, which came under intense scrutiny earlier this year after one of its interrogators was cited for involvement in the sexual humiliation of Iraqi captives at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.

The new contract will allow close supervision of civilian interrogators, a U.S. Army official said. "Our military intelligence folks can have direct control of the civilian contract personnel and ensure they follow proper procedures," the senior Army contracting official said.

The Army said that coalition forces were "satisfied" with CACI's performance, and said that there had been no evidence to date that CACI itself was responsible for wrongdoing in connection with the scandal. The Army official said CACI was awarded the contract without competitive bidding in order to avoid any lapse in providing private interrogators to question prisoners held at U.S.-run facilities in Iraq. The official said the Army planned to award a competitive contract for private interrogators in coming months.

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[realFedUp]

1. Rewarding bad behavior again....

what else is new in this administration.

[Joanne98]

2. This Christian Miller guy

is one of the reporters who LIES about Hugo Chavez all the time. didn't the human rights groups file a lawsuit against Caci and Titan?

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

3. Some whistleblowers filed a lawsuit against Dyncorp and its sex trade

and won.

http://www.newsmine.org/archive/cabal-elite/corporate/defense/dyncorp-sex-slave-scandal.txt

I found this over at Buzzflash:

DynCorp was hired in 2003 to police Iraq even after their criminal practices in Bosnia and elsewhere had been exposed to the whole world. Is this how we wanted to promote human rights in a country which we claim to 'liberate'? While there is no evidence (yet?) that DynCorp's employees have been involved in the latest instances of abuses in Iraq, two other large firms with similar profiles (CIA fronts) have been implicated so far: CACI and Titan Corp. Watch out, fellow Iraqis, American democracy is coming to a town near you.

A Sickened Buzzer

http://216.239.59.104/custom?q=cache:FPcACfpfdMcJ:www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/04/05/mai04123.html+CACI&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[phasev]

4. Reward bad behavior and incompetence.

Seems to be the trend in the Bush administration.

[struggle4progress]

5. The Bushistas reward their cronies, without regard for history ...

... or competence.