Abu Ghraib Case Will Proceed Despite CACI’s State Secrets Claim

The Abu Ghraib prison abuse lawsuit will continue despite an interrogation contractor’s assertion that the Army is preventing it from raising a proper defense, a federal court said in a one-page order.

Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia rejected CACI Premier Technology Inc.'s assertion that the Army’s reliance on the state secrets privilege, which blocked access to interrogation records and the identities of interrogators, precludes due process in this case.

CACI also failed to convince the court it has immunity from the suit because it operated under the military’s control at ...