[untrained skeptic]

I read this someplace else and apparently happened in 03 and several times subsequently. What possible legal concerns could there be to document with cameras the work they do?? Police cars have had cameras for years.

My guess is that the State department and the Iraqi government didn't want video documentation of who they were moving around and where they were taken.

[elpadre]

“didn’t want video documentation of who they were moving around and where they were taken”

- probably so, but in that environment they are preventing the security contractors the ability to defend their actions.