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It turns out some people (they may, just possibly, mean us, along with most of the rest of the civilized world) have been saying mean things about CACI just because some of their people torture Iraqis.

(via PRnewswire) (a "news service" for press releases)

CACI International Inc today [June 28 2004] stated that due to the erroneous, inaccurate and false information being widely disseminated and repeated, it has again become necessary to clarify various aspects of its contract arrangements with the U.S. Army to provide interrogator services (an intelligence information gathering function) in Iraq.

Assorted corporate PR omitted for the sake of brevity. But read the following very carefully, looking back to today's other posts for clarification when necessary:

CACI's contract arrangements with the U.S. military have not been fashioned in a manner intended to mislead or to otherwise deceive anyone at any time and any such allegations are totally false. ..

Administration of the [contract] was transferred from the U.S. Army at Fort Huachuca to the Department of Interior at Fort Huachuca on January 14, 2001 as part of a government reorganization that saw the Army contracting office become part of the Department of the Interior when Army operations at Fort Huachuca were substantially reduced.

CACI's Statement of Work..further specifies that the U.S. military will provide readiness training and briefings on rules of engagement and general orders applicable to coalition armed forces, DoD civilians and U.S. contractors, including the provisions of the Geneva Conventions.

CACI's contract requires that employees work under the monitoring and supervision of the U.S. military chain-of-command in Iraq. CACI personnel have no responsibility for management, supervisory or command authority over any non-CACI personnel. CACI operates a full-time in-country administrative chain-of-command over all of its employees in Iraq.

As to widely repeated employee misinformation, CACI has never employed Mr. John Israel. Mr. John Israel was incorrectly identified as a CACI employee in the illegally released, "leaked" sections of the classified (SECRET/NO-FOREIGN) report issued by Major General Antonio M. Taguba regarding allegations of abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. Mr. Israel is not now and never has been an employee of CACI.

Hmm. Wonder how Gen. Taguba, who seems to be a very diligent person, ever got such an impression?

CACI employee Steven A. Stefanowicz was the only CACI employee identified in the Taguba report. The report alleges culpable wrongdoing on the part of Mr. Stefanowicz; however, [his mouthpiece denies this--ed.]

Just a couple more interesting items...interesting because CACI felt obliged to make these claims:

CACI is not now and never has been involved in political activist pursuits of any kind for its own individual corporate benefit.

CACI does not now have and never has had a political action committee (PAC). The Company makes no effort whatsoever to influence or interfere with the rights of its officers and employees to participate as they see fit in supporting any candidate for office through a private donation.

Go look at the full version of this at the link; there's about three times as much corporate PR BS as what I included here. An awful lot of denial for a company that didn't do anything wrong, don't you think?