Some comments via email from Ethan Zuckerman, ex of GeekCorps and now a Berkman fellow with a blog with the tagline "My blog is in Cambridge, but my heart's in Accra":
A few things that have caught my eye...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1211351,00.html - Former CACI contractor Torin Nelson, who served at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, says that CACI was so desperate for staffers, they were scraping the bottom of the barrel. One of his fellow interogators had last worked as a truck driver. Most folks with actual intelligence experience were in management, leaving the actual questioning to folks with significantly less real experience.
http://www.caci.com/ - One of the weird things about CACI is that it looks, at first pass, like a software business. They're listed in a number of places as VARs. (Guess I never thought about buying interogators with my SAP system.) They're not small - $692m in revenue in 2002... Despite all the bad press, they're still recruiting interogators on their website: http://cacirecruiting.caci.com/jobpostings.nsf/$$Search
http://www.clearancejobs.com - "Got a clearance? Get a job!" Lists a number of interogator jobs - interesting to think of financial motivations here - these jobs, in Iraq or Afghanistan, have pay rates attached to them of $80-$150k plus leave packages.
There are those who would pay CACI for the privilege of interrogating prisoners. Surprised it pays so well.
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