When he/she is a "private contractor".
Time was: private armies were, at best, "extra-legal", and subject to investigation by the FBI and ATF. Now they're under contract.
Interesting that said contractors are not subject to Iraqi law -- because we said so, not the Iraqis -- nor are they subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. One might infer that they are also exempt from the Geneva Conventions.
Perhaps the suspects in this latest incident should be arrested and held incommunicado for years on end as "enemy combatants" without rights of habias corpus and other due process. Plenty of precedent...
Time was: war zones were war zones, and all security was provided by the armed forces of the US. These days, I suppose we're pretending that war zones aren't, and security is "outsourced".
What's next -- sending the Federal information services to Mumbai?
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