Phoenix Program - The Phoenix Program was a top secret operation designed and initially coordinated by the CIA, in which various elite special operations units of the US military and its allies were sent throughout South Vietnam to hunt down, interrogate, torture and often execute people accused of collaborating with the Communist North. Widely seen in retrospect as a failure that encourage routine human rights violations, the Phoenix Program deployed some of the most brutal tactics seen in the war. Up to 40,000 South Vietnamese were executed without trial as a result of the program.
Abu Ghraib -
Fred F. Fielding, a lawyer for Z, better known as Blackwater, a private mercenary firm tried for murder and rape. 14 of them who went to jail got pardoned by Donald Trump. Fielding was such a bastard that he actually countersued the family of the contractor victims whose burned corpses were hung from a bridge in Fallujah to block the family from gaining access to the circumstances surrounding the event. The details of what really happened were uncovered in Jeremy Scahill's book, Blackwater, The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Fielding wasn't the only important investigator working with Blackwater. The inspector general, who was supposed to let the other shoe drop on Hollinger and Richard Perle, also found employment at Blackwater as a senior executive.
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