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Guns-for-Hire Accused of Gitmo Abuse

mercenaries5.jpgd9qimh.jpgWaPo: "New allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay released by the FBI on Tuesday put private contractors at the center of interrogation operations, raising questions once again about where they fit in the military's chain of command."

Contractors have traditionally not been subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the body of laws that governs the behavior of soldiers. Other laws apply to contractors, but many remain untested.

"You have two different types of people operating under different sets of rules," said Scott L. Silliman, executive director of the center on law, ethics and national security at Duke University.

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· Fred Fielding, a former outside counsel for the firm, who "has had a long career as a lawyer to prominent Republicans. From 1970 to 1972, he was an associate White House counsel in the Nixon administration; from 1972 to 1974, he was present for the denouement of that administration as deputy White House counsel." Fielding is a former counsel to President Reagan and current White House counsel to President Bush.

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There is no evidence in the documents that the committee has reviewed that the State Department sought to restrain Blackwater's actions, raised concerns about the number of shooting incidents involving Blackwater or the company's high rate of shooting first, or detained Blackwater contractors for investigation,

The private security firm Blackwater USA, has numerous links to the White House as well as many current and former Republicans.

The corruption, and atrocities will not stop until we pull our troops home, and Impeach this administration....

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BLACKWATER SECURITY AND OTHERS:

For weeks, months, years, it has been know by many Americans, that Iraqi civilians were being indiscriminately killed.

Enough evidence has been established, that such now is becoming brought out from Secrecy, and from under the cover-up.

The question now becomes direct to Military Commanders & the Pentagon. The Iraqis, the contractors, military personnel

have been witness to these kinds of abuses for the entire time we have occupied Iraq. It certainly does not seem to the

rest of us, that that would be part of the LIBERATION. You will have a hard time convincing anyone, that part of the

responsibility toward accountability for these criminal acts, does not fall directly on very top Military & civilian leadership.

Unlike Viet Nam, where the blame was pushed down to a Lt. Cali, the top shall be held to blame.

The death toll on Iraqi civilians speaks for itself. Impossible, to have been missed by top leadership.

"THUGS" EQUIPPED BETTER THAN THE TROOPS, ON YOUR TAX DOLLARS..
WHILE OUR TROOPS DIE !!
What little news we have gotten on the Private Security company Blackwater.
Did anyone notice how well equipped they are in comparison to our troops? Folks that was done on your taxes FOR Private corporations. WOW!!
I really don't see how that is supporting our troops,all this rhetoric on how the republicans support our troops. The reality is the money has gone to provide Security on the oil wells, Permanent construction of bases, and on an Embassy, largest in the world. Just why is that?
WHERE HAS CONGRESS AND THE MEDIA BEEN. IN SOMEONES POCKET!!
MR. PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT, SOMEONE HAS “BETRAYED—US”!!
MORE UNJUSTIFABLE WAR CRIMES!!
A British polling agency has determined that more than one million Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the Iraq war. This report follows survey results released last fall by Lancet, the prestigious medical magazine which gave a conservative estimate of 650,000 deaths. Opinion Research Business found that the death rate in Iraq increased by 1.2 million people since the U.S.-led invasion began .

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Yes, I'd agree with you, but the article is from Proceedings magazine and my comments simply reflected what I thought in general at the time about the issue of PMC's and how they stand outside of the civilian/military legal jurisdiction. It was not directed to any specific firm, but the security industry in general and the trends or direction it might take (for the worse, I might add.)

Posted by: atacms at January 4, 2007 10:07 PM


Given the current breach of contract/negligence lawsuits against Blackwater over wrongful contractor deaths, that might be bad, unless the docs are more or less public domain, inwhich case they might be an interesting read.

just my $.02

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Posted by: joe at January 4, 2007 06:41 PM


Noah, as Professional Liability underwriter who reviewed Blackwater prior to their Falluja incident, I'd like to post a PDF article (1382KB) that I got from the US Naval Institute's Proceedings issue together with some comments that I added when I was looking at Blackwater in a professional perspective.

Is that possible?

Posted by: atacms at January 4, 2007 04:41 PM


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