A Big Pile Of CACI

Ethan Heitner

November 21, 2006

Any fan of Robert Greenwald's amazing documentary Iraq For Sale should check out Josh Holland's piece today on Alternet about the recent behavior of CACI International and its attempts to intimidate Greenwald and other vocal critics of CACI's war profiteering.

From Holland:

CACI's strategy has been two-fold: its flacks have distorted well-documented facts in the public record beyond recognition, and its senior management has lawyered up, suing or threatening to sue just about every journalist, muckraker and government watchdog who's dared to shine a light on the firm's unique role as a torture profiteer.

Lately, the company's sights have been set squarely on Robert Greenwald, director of Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, in which CACI plays a starring role. Greenwald has been in a back-and-forth with CACI's CEO, Jack London, and its lead attorney, William Koegel, during "months of calls, emails and letters" in what Greenwald calls a campaign to "intimidate, threaten and suppress" the story presented in the film.

CACI International, you will recall, has not just been involved in some of the most egregious cases of going the American taxpayer on services deliver, but was also specifically the source of the mercenary interrogators involved in Abu Ghraib and other notorious "black sites." As Michael Scherer and Mark Benjamin have reported for Salon, individuals working for CACI have been directly implicated in the abuse of detainees, but have not been prosecuted or investigated because the actions of private contractors operating in Iraq falls in murky, unclear legal territory. 

By the way, CACI just got a $64.5 million dollar contract from the Army for continued "technical and engineering support."