MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
A US Appeals court has ruled that US citizens and veterans employed by a US military contractor in Iraq were allowed to go ahead with their suit against Donald Rumsfeld and others, alleging torture for 97 days in Iraq by the US military at the Baghdad airport Camp Cropper in 2006. This occurred after the men had informed the FBI in Chicago of fraud and illegal activities occurring, including the open selling of US weapons to insurgents, that they had personally observed.
Another question, which is not involved in the lawsuit, is did someone at some level in the FBI expose the men to the Pentagon in order to shut them up? Soon after their reports on fraud and illegal activities, they were detained by the US military, and turned over to its 'enhanced interrogators', and tortured.
...Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel were working for a private U.S. government contractor, Shield Group Security, in 2006 when they witnessed the sale of U.S. government weapons to Iraqi rebel groups for money and alcohol. After they became FBI informants and collaborated with an investigation into their employer, the company revoked their credentials for entering Iraq’s so-called Green Zone, effectively barring them from the safest part of the country. Shortly afterward, they were arrested and detained by U.S. troops......