Our Good Name

A Company's Fight to Defend Its Honor and Get the Truth Told About Abu Ghraib

J. Phillip London

• Publisher: Regnery
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781596985391
• eBook ISBN:
  9781596981799
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The Crisis That Rocked a Country and a Company... In April 2004, an illegally leaked U.S. Army report thrust CACI, an information technology company, into the international spotlight by casting suspicion on a CACI employee for being "either directly or indirectly responsible" for the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. At the same time, pictures from the abuses were shown on national television and tarnished anyone associated with Abu Ghraib--including CACI. What ensued was a media frenzy rarely seen by any company in recent decades. The media twisted the unsupported allegations into a guilty verdict without regard for the facts or the truth, creating a damning public perception of CACI. Our Good Name recounts how CACI battled to defend itself against erroneous and malicious reports by a rampaging media, how it responded to the wide-ranging government investigations, and how it overcame misplaced anger and criticism that put the company's dedicated employees and excellent reputation--even it's future--at risk. Our Good Name is CACI's story of facing one of the biggest scandals in recent history...and coming out honorably with its head high.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel
• THE TRUTH WILL OUT
• Invictus
• Introduction
• SECTION ONE - THE CRISIS BEGINS
• SECTION TWO - THE MEDIA’S HYSTERICAL RAMPAGE
• SECTION THREE - CACI STANDS ITS GROUND
• SECTION FOUR - CACI’S BUSINESS AND REPUTATION AT STAKE
• SECTION FIVE - TURNING THE TIDE
• SECTION SIX - RIGHTING THE WRONGS
• EPILOGUE
• THE CEO’S POSTSCRIPT
• APPENDIX A - Setting the Record Straight
• APPENDIX B - The CACI’s Abu Ghraib Experience — Who’s Who
• APPENDIX C - Timeline: CACI and Abu Ghraib Key Events and Milestones
• APPENDIX D - CACI Corporate Philosophy: The Company’s Foundation Documents
• APPENDIX E - Select CACI News Releases Concerning Abu Ghraib
• APPENDIX F - List of U.S. Military and Government Investigations Related to ...
• APPENDIX G - Abu Ghraib Prison Profile and Record of Incidents
• APPENDIX H - The CACI Hypercrisis Management Model
• APPENDIX I - Op-Ed Piece by J.P. London Rejected by the Washington Post
• APPENDIX J - Abu Ghraib Verdicts
• APPENDIX K - Unacceptable or Unimaginable?
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS
• GLOSSARY & TERMS OF INTEREST CONCERNING ISLAM AND THE MIDDLE EAST
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Acknowledgements
• ABOUT J. PHILLIP LONDON
• INDEX
• Copyright Page