The Women Detained at Abu Ghraib

Over the summer, I had the good fortune to work on a very small piece of the class action lawsuit filed on behalf of the men and women tortured at Abu Ghraib. The suit was filed against CACI and Titan, two private military contractors that provided interrogators and translators at Abu Ghraib.

But through all of the press coverage the case has received, none up until this point has focused on what's happened to the women detained at Abu Ghraib. Read this well-done piece in the American Prospect to learn about the horrors they endured.

I feel fortunate to have worked with people, and in particular, with attorney Susan Burke, who read and heard about detainees being tortured, and had the courage and wherewithal to do something about it. May we all have the courage and wherewithal to speak out against the atrocities -- large and small -- that we see.