American Contractors Tortured In Iraq

American contractors attempted to blow the whistle on fraud and instead were detained and tortured in Iraq.

It is ironic that the "free press" in the USA will not report on these issues.


Americans Tortured in Iraq
Those Who Blow Whistle on Contractor Fraud in Iraq Face Penalties
by Deborah Hastings

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One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.

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''It was a Wal-Mart for guns,'' he says. ''It was all illegal and everyone knew it.''

So Vance says he blew the whistle, supplying photos and documents and other intelligence to an FBI agent in his hometown of Chicago because he didn't know whom to trust in Iraq.

For his trouble, he says, he got 97 days in Camp Cropper, an American military prison outside Baghdad that once held Saddam Hussein, and he was classified a security detainee.
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But in 2006, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III overturned the jury award. He said Isakson and Baldwin failed to prove that the Coalition Provisional Authority, the U.S.-backed occupier of Iraq for 14 months, was part of the U.S. government.

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