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To: edzo4
no need to cherry pick its in the lead paragraph

who under investigation is serving with us troops in Afghanistan or Iraq? What does that have to do with the issues at hand?

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New Law Could Subject Civilians to Military Trial
In an image from 2004, a private contractor enters an interrogation room at Abu Ghraib prison.

By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 15, 2007
Private contractors and other civilians serving with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan could be subject for the first time to military courts-martial under a new federal provision that legal scholars say is almost certain to spark constitutional challenges.

243 posted on 07/08/2018 2:06:59 PM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em high)
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To: rolling_stone

You are predictable.

I’m sure you just missed this part lol

The provision, which was slipped into a spending bill at the end of the last Congress, is intended to close a long-standing loophole that critics say puts contractors in war zones above the law.

But the provision also could affect others accompanying U.S. forces in the field, including civilian government employees and embedded journalists.


248 posted on 07/08/2018 2:13:06 PM PDT by edzo4 ("Well I truly would be thrilled if all/most of the Q stuff turns out to be real")
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