Lawsuit Mars Abu Ghraib Contractor’s PR BlitzTalk about bad timing! Just as CACI International was ramping up for its book tour — the company’s CEO has penned “Our Good Name,” which according to the flap copy is “CACI’s story of facing one of the biggest scandals in recent history…and coming out honorably with its head high” — an Iraqi man has sued CACI, saying that employees tortured him when he was held in Abu Ghraib.
Cruelly, the lawyers for Emad al-Janabi, which include lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, have used CACI’s own book against the company. The suit alleges that the book reveals that CACI’s internal investigation failed to include any interviews of detainees or of a former employee whistleblower. The suit was filed in Los Angeles in order to target former CACI contractor Steven “Big Steve” Stefanowicz.
Note: For those looking for another beach read this summer from the same genre (self glorifying autobiography by an infamous contractor’s CEO), there’s also Erik Prince’s “We Are Blackwater.”