More Proof Of Cover Up and Reprisal In US Military
One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted. Or worse.
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.
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.
The seller, he claimed, was the Iraqi-owned company he worked for, Shield Group Security Co.
“It was a Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT – news – people ) for guns,” he says. “It was all illegal and everyone knew it.” “There’s an unspoken rule in Baghdad,” he said. “Don’t snitch on people and don’t burn bridges.” Donald Vance decided to never call the FBI again.
December 18, 2006, Donald Vance, a 29 year-old former member of the United States Navy, and a former supervisor of security personnel for the Sandi Group and later Shield Group Security (SGS) in Iraq, filed suit against Donald Rumsfeld in the Northern District of Illinois.
Thanks to “18 Months And Counting” we see more and more evidence that the Bush Marketing Machine will go to despicable lengths to cover it’s tracks. BushCo must feed it’s hungry War Profiteer buddies and anyone who tells the truth is ‘aiding the enemy’ … beware Guantanamo is waiting for you.
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