On September 14, 2004 the New York-based human rights activist group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which had filed a lawsuit against CACI in
San Diego Federal Court, filed a motion requesting that the Court enter an order requiring CACI to deploy only properly trained interrogators to Iraq.
In response to this, CACI issued the following statement, quoting John F. O'Connor of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, a lawyer representing CACI in the lawsuit
"This motion is just the latest effort by a group of unprincipled lawyers to twist and invent facts in an attempt to dictate the United
States' policies in Iraq, and to defame and extort financial compensation from CACI. CACI has at all times provided highly qualified interrogators in
support of the United States' mission in Iraq and is proud of the patriotic service its employees have rendered. Indeed, plaintiffs' motion
deceitfully fails to acknowledge that the interrogators provided by CACI without exception satisfied all of the qualifications set forth in the
Statement of Work issued to CACI by the United States government.
"By way of example, all of the interrogators provided by CACI are United States citizens with a minimum Secret or higher security clearance,
meaning that they have undergone extensive background investigations in the course of obtaining such clearances. Among the clearest principles of
American law is that decisions relating to the composition, training, equipping and control of a military force are professional military judgments
with which the federal courts will not interfere.
"Therefore, we are confident that the Court will deny the plaintiffs' latest in a long string of frivolous and disingenuous filings in this action."
