{"id":76574,"date":"2024-04-22T19:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/04\/22\/jury-deliberating-in-abu-ghraib-case-contractor-casts-blame-on-army\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:07:38","slug":"jury-deliberating-in-abu-ghraib-case-contractor-casts-blame-on-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/04\/22\/jury-deliberating-in-abu-ghraib-case-contractor-casts-blame-on-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury deliberating in Abu Ghraib case; contractor casts blame on Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lawyer for the military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors Monday that the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you believe they were abused &#8230; tell them to make their claim against the U.S. government,\u201d said John O\u2019Connor, defense attorney for Reston, Virginia-based military contractor CACI, during closing arguments at the civil trial in federal court. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they sue the people who actively abused them?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit brought by the three former Abu Ghraib detainees marks the first time a U.S. jury has weighed claims of abuse at the prison, which was the site of a worldwide scandal 20 years ago when photos became public showing U.S. soldiers smiling as they inflicted abusive and humiliating treatment on detainees in the months after the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The suit alleges that civilian interrogators supplied by CACI to Abu Ghraib contributed to the torture the plaintiffs by conspiring with military police to \u201csoften up\u201d detainees for interrogations.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2024\/04\/16\/retired-generals-testimony-links-contractor-to-abu-ghraib-abuses\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC6418.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Retired general\u2019s testimony links contractor to Abu Ghraib abuses<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">An Army general who investigated prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib has testified that a civilian contractor instructed prison guards to \u201csoften up\u201d detainees.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CACI, in its closing arguments, relied in part on a legal theory known as the \u201cborrowed servant doctrine,\u201d which states an employer can\u2019t be liable for its employees\u2019 conduct if another entity is controlling and directing those employees\u2019 work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this case, CACI says the Army was directing and controlling its employees in their work as interrogators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawyers for the plaintiffs disputed that CACI relinquished control of its interrogators to the Army. At trial, they introduced evidence that CACI\u2019s contract with the Army required CACI to supervise its own employees. Jurors also saw a section of the Army Field Manual that pertains to contractors and states that \u201conly contractors may supervise and give direction to their employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muhammad Faridi, one of the plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers, told jurors that the case is simpler than CACI\u2019s lawyers are trying to make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that if CACI interrogators conspired with military police to inflict abuse on detainees to soften them up for interrogations, then the jury can find CACI liable even if CACI interrogators never themselves inflicted abuse on any of the three plaintiffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three plaintiffs <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/abu-ghraib-trial-iraq-virginia-9e6eae5c7ea05fac90d8541efdd15562\" target=\"_blank\">testified to horrible treatment<\/a> including beatings, sexual assaults, being threatened with dogs and forced to wear women\u2019s underwear, but said the abuse was either inflicted by soldiers, or by civilians who couldn\u2019t be identified as CACI workers. In some cases, the detainees said they couldn\u2019t see who was abusing them because they had bags over their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As evidence of CACI\u2019s complicity, jurors heard <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/abu-ghraib-trial-iraq-virginia-9e6eae5c7ea05fac90d8541efdd15562\" target=\"_blank\">testimony from two retired generals<\/a> who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal in 2004; both concluded that CACI interrogators engaged in misconduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faridi told the jury that while many of the soldiers who abused detainees were convicted and sentenced to prison, CACI has not yet been held accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen our country\u2019s military found out about the abuse, they didn\u2019t cover it up,\u201d Faridi said. \u201cOur country\u2019s military held the military police members who were perpetrating the abuse accountable. CACI escaped liability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Faridi said that even when the Army asked CACI to hold its its interrogators responsible, it still sought to evade responsibility. In May 2004, the Army asked CACI to fire one of its interrogators, Dan Johnson, after one of the Abu Ghraib photos showed Johnson interrogating a detainee who was forced into an awkward crouching position that investigators concluded was an illegal stress position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CACI contested Johnson\u2019s dismissal, writing that the \u201cphoto depicts what appears to be a relatively relaxed scene\u201d and saying that \u201csquatting is common and unremarkable among Iraqis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll leave that to you to consider whether you find that offensive,\u201d Faridi told the jury Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At trial, CACI employees testified they defended Johnson\u2019s work because Army personnel had asked them through back channels to do so. O\u2019Connor said that out of the many hundreds of photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib, the photo of Johnson is the only one depicting a CACI employee, and it shows him questioning not one of the plaintiffs but an Iraqi policeman after someone had smuggled a gun into the prison and shot at military police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O\u2019Connor also apologized for parts of his case that were \u201clong, annoying and boring\u201d but said he had no choice because the U.S. government claimed that some evidence, including the identities of interrogators, was classified. So jurors, rather than hearing live testimony, were subjected to long audio recordings in which the interrogators\u2019 voices were doctored and their answers were often interrupted by government lawyers who instructed them to not answer the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trial was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2024\/04\/12\/20-years-later-abu-ghraib-detainees-get-their-day-in-us-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">delayed by more than 15 years of legal wrangling<\/a> and questions over whether CACI could be sued. Some of the debate focused on the question of immunity \u2014 there had long been an assumption that the U.S. government would hold sovereign immunity from a civil suit, and CACI argued that, as a government contractor, it would enjoy derivative immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, determined that the U.S. government cannot claim immunity in cases involving fundamental violations of international norms, such as torture allegations. 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