Torturers For Hire. DeepDives.

There are ‘for profit’ companies employed by the US government to carry out crimes against humanity.

The behavior of these contractors has been documented on many occasions, from the use of deadly force carried out by the company formerly known as Black Water to the use of high stress positions used in Abu Gharib, or waterboarding in GITMO. There is a history of private contractors engaging in behaviors which the rule-of-law prevents soldiers and agents from carrying out.

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The use of private industries allow the people in positions of power and influence to pretend ignorance when the eventual leak of damning information happens. When we see government hiring private firms to torture or murder people we need to question whether these activities are strictly necessary, or whether these contracts were created in an effort to generate revenue for specific individuals.

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The US military and intelligence services have a history of providing contracts to people of wealth and influence, creating revenue through the use of torture in foreign lands. This was the case in Abu Ghrib when CACI International and the Titan Company were exposed for their inhumane treatment of Iraqi civilians. The contract to extract information from detainees was awarded to a former CIA agent familiar with the legal ins and outs of “enhanced interrogation”, and therefore uniquely positioned to violate the rights of suspects without worry of charges or fines for violating the rule of law.

While torture and human rights violations are frowned on in the USA, we heartily approve of profit-making. There is virtually no level of wrongdoing carried out in the name of profits which will be condemned or halted. When there is money to be made in torture, there are contracts to be awarded to torturers. Especially in light of the complete lack of charges, with the exception of the whistle-blower, arising from the Torture Report.

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In our modern time we have seen private security firms violating the law without repercussions. We must question whether the for-profit sector is really the place for torture and interrogation. Because corporations are responsible for intelligence-gathering there is profit in surveillance, and where there is profit the wealthy cluster. These wealthy investors work in concert with legislators to influence public policy. This is one of the modern faces of fascist America. The privatization of intelligence, detention and enhanced interrogation was characterized as a gold rush in this Wikileak.

The role of for-profit corporate entities is largely ignored in reporting on the Torture Report. We see references to CIA agents or Army MPs and contractors, but we don’t really get a sense of which corporations were involved, how much the taxpayers paid for these companies to engage in human rights violations, or how these contracts were awarded. National security, media complicity, and wealth insulate the perpetrators of for-profit torture.

This post is based on this wikileak https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/17/1790251_isn-private-intel-the-new-gold-rush-.html

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