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Donald Vance vs. Donald Rumsfeld

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File
vance-vs-rumsfeld.pdf (click to view full file)
Analysis
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Summary
Jan 18, 2008 motion filed by the United States government in Donald Vance vs. the former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld et al. Vance was falsely imprisoned in Iraq in 2006 and is now suing the United States government. The motion detailed here was brought by the US and attempts to prevent legal discovery of documents relevant to the case, however in doing so reveals some information.
Context
United States
Judiciary
US Discrict Court
Wikileaks release date
Saturday January 19, 2008
File size in bytes
49516
File type information
PDF document, version 1.4
Cryptographic identity
SHA256 0610acc605f0004be5bb7db39b1ddd156f3b898ce7aef2ff35eda35abd90c7b4
Description (as provided by the original submitter)

Attached is a legal filing in which the U.S Government states that there are currently 160,000 U.S troops and approximately same amount of contractors in Iraq.

The number of Govt contractors has always been a issue of guess work but not any longer.



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