Freh Air: contracted interrogators: no official accountability

shockingelk

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Tue May-11-04 10:37 PM
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Freh Air: contracted interrogators: no official accountability

Tuesday's Fresh Air was really good - a guy from the Brookings Institution helped try to sort out the accountability issue for private contractors - it seems that officially, the companies are only accountable to their contract, and the company's employers are only subject to their employment - ie, they could get fired or docked pay.

Also stuff about how neither the Pentagon nor the contractors, CACI and TITAN cleared the background of interrogators - in one case the employee's former qualifications were "truck driver".

The archived show:

http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=05/11/2004

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