Information Gleaned by: ACLU
Government Agency: Defense Department
Volume of Records: 496 Claims forms filled out by Iraqi and Afghani civilians.
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This volume contains claims by civilians who are requesting monetary damages from the United States for deaths, injuries and property destruction since the beginnings of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The claims of these citizens are written in their own handwriting and the amounts paid for deaths of family members are in the thousands. These forms read like W-2's, it is chilling to see how bureaucratized human life is made out to be. Only about 80 of the claims contain an admission of fault by the US, in the rest blame is systematically discharged by one legal exemption or another.

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