Iraq for Sale: Secret Service Corruption

Blackwater Security has had many Federal contracts throughout the last couple decades. The Federal contracts that are most astonishing are the ones from 2001 to 2005. There was a tremendous increase in the contracts, going from $774,906 in 2001 all the way up to $221.4 million in 2005. (Greenwald) These numbers are incredibly high, and where is all this money being used? We have been asking these questions for years now, and our government doesn’t seem to give us a set answer. In Robert Greenwald’s “Iraq for Sale,” he brings some of the things this money is being spent on into plain sight. Special interest groups stationed in Iraq include private contractors from TITAN, C.A.C.I, Halliburton, and KBR. Greenwald shows us the corruption and dishonesty of these groups throughout his film. All of these private contractors were sent to Iraq shortly after the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001. A few of the groups took part in torturing Iraqi prisoners, while our government sat back and watched. The United States policies didn’t change the way these contractors approached treating their prisoners, in fact it seemed as if they supported it. Only until there were many complaints about this and other corrupt tendencies of special interest groups were there even any investigations. Interrogators sent to Iraq through TITAN and C.A.C.I., who were also known as khaki interrogators, partook in this horrible torturing of the detainees. One man who spoke in “Iraq for Sale” spoke of his horrifying memories of having a rope tied around his penis, along with a small group of other men, and one of the khaki interrogators pushing one of the men down and laughing. (Greenwald) Is this what our interrogators are being taught to do? They would beat, torture, and embarrass full grown men as they pleased, and where is the justice? There are some accusations put against TITAN, “Titan corporation of San Diego, California, one of the two companies accused of