Tuesday, December 28, 2004
U.S. Navy Renews CACI's Torture Contract
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Navy Re-Ups CACI's Support and Training Contract
Along with the Titan Corp., CACI operatives are the wonderful folks who brought you the torture prisons of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the prisons in Afghanistan.
Remember those uniformed, but untagged, "intelligence officers" who ran around, giving the orders to uniformed AND properly tagged U.S. military personnel in Iraq and elsewhere?
The ones who were behind all those disgusting photos and Seymour Hersh articles?
Yep! Those guys. And we just gave this vermin scads more money.
That's because CACI and Titan supply the mercenaries who obtain the "real, boots-on-the-ground-type" intelligence that the Pentagon of Donald Rumsfeld is so enamored of. The kind those sissies over at CIA don't have the heart or the balls to go get.
The fact that they merely swept thousands who knew nothing off the streets and out of their homes and into prisons, and then tortured them, raped them and humiliated a whole culture before this Arab scum either died, told CACI anything they wanted to know about anybody just to stop the pain, or were set free by those Liberal pansies on the Supreme Court, thereby igniting a popular anti-U.S. revolt among the Iraqi people that's closer to the French Resistance than it is to the army of North Korea, is completely beside the point.
There were contracts to fulfill.
It might have been better, if America's good name was going to be dragged through the mud, that some of the intelligence obtained in that manner was actually accurate and useable. The sad truth buried in the disgust, is that all of the info obtained this way was garbage and useless.
Basically they had the shopkeeper saying that his next-door neighbor, the electrician, was a Saddam general, and was in direct contact with Osama bin Laden. This made CACI happy, and they'd take the electric clamp off his genitals.
Then the electrician disappeared, and suddenly the taxi driver he fought with for years disappeared, and so on, and so on, and so on, until the prisons overflowed with the screams of "terrorists."
CACI International Inc. of Arlington won a $16 million contract renewal from the Navy's Fleet and Industrial Supply Center to provide logistics support and training services to the Navy and Marine Corps.
The one-year contract, with four one-year options, would be worth $85 million if all options are exercised. The renewal is the company's fifth contract over the past 17 years for services supporting the Navy's Fleet Assistance and Shipboard Training program.
This on the heels of this other contract the Pentagon gave them.
The award follows another major win for the company with the Navy. In November, CACI won a $15.7 million award from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center to support a communications system that allows Navy personnel to transmit battlefield-related data among aircraft, ships and shore installations. If all options are exercised, that contract has a potential value of $27 million over five years.
When you watch movies, the bad guy always has this seemingly unending army of usually faceless armored soldiers trying to defend "the hideout," shooting and missing at James Bond or Harrison Ford in Star Wars, or some other set-up.
Ever wonder? Who ARE those guys the good guy gets to dispatch so easily?
They're mercenaries. Most likely from CACI. Or Titan.
Slowly, the letters in CACI should start morphing for you into these:
SS.
posted by Gotham 11:25 AM
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