I let this go for a few days figuring Pisshead would pick up on this but apparently even PrisonPlanet is passing this by. More proof our government cares more about corporate America then it does about actual Americans. Kinda reminds me of how we treated our own boarder guards for shooting back at a smuggler. :mad: Some snips from the story or click link for story in full.
Iraq fraud whistleblowers vilified
Cases show fraud exposers have been vilified, fired, or detained for weeks
The Associated Press
For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.
There were times, huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over, that Vance began to wish he had just kept his mouth shut.
He had thought he was doing a good and noble thing when he started telling the FBI about the guns and the land mines and the rocket-launchers ?? all of them being sold for cash, no receipts necessary, he said. He told a federal agent the buyers were Iraqi insurgents, American soldiers, State Department workers, and Iraqi embassy and ministry employees.
??It was a Wal-Mart for guns,? he says. ??It was all illegal and everyone knew it.?
For his trouble, he says, he got 97 days in Camp Cropper, an American military prison outside Baghdad that once held Saddam Hussein, and he was classified a security detainee.
Also held was colleague Nathan Ertel, who helped Vance gather evidence documenting the sales, according to a federal lawsuit both have filed in Chicago, alleging they were illegally imprisoned and subjected to physical and mental interrogation tactics ??reserved for terrorists and so-called enemy combatants.?
