LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Well, the two decisions that I had the most profound insights into and which I have spoken to are the decision to depart from the Geneva Conventions and to depart from international law with regard to treatment of detainees by the Armed Forces in particular. But by the entire US establishment, now including the CIA and contractors in general.

You see what he's just admitted to? These 'contractors' are not 'freelance', they are part of the US Establishment. They are mercaneries, 'war contractors', not 'security contractors' as we're constantly told when one of them dies or is kidnapped.