Comments on: CACI Grabs Scottish Census Contract, Ignites Political Firestorm Over Torture Allegations http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/caci-grabs-scottish-census-contract-ignites-political-firestorm-over-torture-allegations/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Richard http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/caci-grabs-scottish-census-contract-ignites-political-firestorm-over-torture-allegations/#comment-28164 Richard Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:00:56 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2459#comment-28164 Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC) has joined the campaign againast the contact. SACC says: "SACC is deeply concerned that CACI Ltd, a UK subsidiary of a company that has been involved in interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison, was in June awarded the contract to run the 2011 Scottish Census. We think that it is wrong to give business to a company that helped run Abu Ghraib and that it is unwise to ask Scots to give personal information to a company whose parent company is closely linked to the US military and intelligence communities. CACI International Inc has a track record of trying to silence its critics by means of implausible threats of litigation. That's one more reason why Scotland should have nothing to do with it... SACC believes that the involvement of the US-based arm of CACI Ltd's parent company, CACI International Inc, in the abusive regime at Abu Ghraib Prison makes CACI Ltd unfit to run the Scottish census. We think that the Scottish Government needs to reconsider its decision urgently... " Full statement from SACC at: http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=601&catid=27 Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC) has joined the campaign againast the contact. SACC says:
“SACC is deeply concerned that CACI Ltd, a UK subsidiary of a company that has been involved in interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison, was in June awarded the contract to run the 2011 Scottish Census. We think that it is wrong to give business to a company that helped run Abu Ghraib and that it is unwise to ask Scots to give personal information to a company whose parent company is closely linked to the US military and intelligence communities.

CACI International Inc has a track record of trying to silence its critics by means of implausible threats of litigation. That’s one more reason why Scotland should have nothing to do with it…

SACC believes that the involvement of the US-based arm of CACI Ltd’s parent company, CACI International Inc, in the abusive regime at Abu Ghraib Prison makes CACI Ltd unfit to run the Scottish census. We think that the Scottish Government needs to reconsider its decision urgently… ”
Full statement from SACC at:
http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=601&catid=27

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