The company contracted for the census was linked to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGESA man refused to fill out his 2016 census form because of his “strong feelings” about the involvement of a company with alleged links to prisoner interrogations at Iraq, a court was told. John Higgins, 70, of Clancy Park, Ennis, Co Clare, told Ennis district court that he objected to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) contracting CACI UK to help with the census. Staff from CACI’s parent company in the US were employed as interrogators in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison between August 2003 and 2005. In his letter to the CSO, Mr Higgins said that he chose not to supply any household details based on the fact that such information would ensure CACI would profit from it. He said that he was “a conscientious…

Source: The Times December 01, 2018 00:00 UTC