The Senate report deals specifically with the CIA’s systemic torture of men detained after 9/11, but there were other dimensions to U.S. torture in the Bush-era “War on Terror”: torture of detainees at Guantánamo, torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and so-called “extraordinary renditions” of people to other countries to be tortured. One of the things the Center for Constitutional Rights has worked on in its multifaceted anti-torture work is holding the private military contractors at Abu Ghraib accountable for their role in the torture of prisoners there. We won the first and so-far only monetary settlement for post-9/11 torture victims, for 72 Iraqis in our Al-Quraishi case against the Abu Ghraib contractor L-3 Services, and we will be in court next month in our Al Shimari case. Like Al-Quraishi, Al Shimari is a suit against an Abu Ghraib contractor, this time CACI. Tomorrow, we will be filing the latest brief in the case, which over the course of six years has moved back and forth between the district court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The particular issue being briefed now and argued on January 16 is on the defendant’s motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the legality of torture is an unreviewable “political question.” Stay tuned.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:01:30 +0000
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