Court Rejects Suit Against CACI Over Abu Ghraib Torture – W.P.

The Washington Post is reporting that a federal panel of judges has rejected a lawsuit against the contractor CACI based here in Northern Virginia concerning abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib Prison.

The reasoning seems to be that if a contractor is hired by the military during wartime as part of a wartime interrogation team that is under military control, the contractor is then an agent of the military and cannot be sued in court as a corporation.  In other words, these guys worked for the Army and so the Army is responsible for the abuses.  At least that is how I read this ruling.

I never went to law school and I am not a federal judge so I don’t have a problem with the ruling as such.  However, it seems to me that an awful lot of people have been brought before the public and the courts for this terrible abusive part of the Iraq War experience and so far the only people that have been punished and imprisoned are corporals and privates and sargeants.  That ain’t right.

How come everytime the big wigs are placed on the griddle nothing happens?  Are any generals or even colonels going to be placed in prison over this?  I seriously doubt it.

This stinks.

CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)