CACI Ordered to Pay $42 Million for Torturing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib

The company's only defense was literally, "We were just following orders."

Three Iraqi survivors of US torture won a major victory in early November when a jury in the federal district court for the Eastern District of Virginia awarded each of them $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages to be paid by American defense contractor CACI, which was responsible for the cruel and inhumane treatment that they endured in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison more than two decades ago.