on military contractors what kind of precedent could these cases set joining me to discuss this derrick crowe political director at brave new foundation gary thanks for joining us tonight and first can you just tell us i know there's two separate cases here one has four plaintiffs one has seventy two but they sound pretty gruesome in terms of what exactly it is that these people ledge or done to that. well the plaintiffs in these cases in these cases allege that syria and el thirty two contractors under contract with the government deprived them of basic human necessities they beat them and ran electric current through their bodies they subjected them to sexual abuse really ation and they put them through some really sadistic mock executions and what that shows you you know an ethical company would have said no thank you we're not going to treat people that way but what you get when you inject the profit motive into war like this is that some sociopathic corporation will always take a dive into the sewer for a dollar sell out how big of a deal is that going to be and obviously it's still a lo

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