CACI
ACTS TO ENSURE PENGUIN PRESS ADHERES TO COMMITMENTS TO CORRECT ERROR IN
PUBLISHER’S NEW BOOK ABOUT GUANTANAMO BAY
False
Statements About CACI, Authors’ Failure to Check Facts Threatens
Company’s
Reputation
Arlington,
Va., May 4, 2005 - CACI International Inc (NYSE: CAI) announced today that it
will closely monitor efforts by Penguin Press to correct a damaging misstatement
about CACI in the just-released book, “Inside the Wire.” Penguin Press, the
book’s publisher, has publicly acknowledged that the book includes an erroneous
statement about CACI in connection with interrogation activities at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. A copy of Penguin’s statement acknowledging the error can be found on
PR Newswire’s website at
http://www.prnewswire.com/
search
under PENGUIN PRESS.
CACI
remains concerned that the nation’s book stores will continue to display and
sell copies of this book that erroneously says that interrogators employed by
CACI were present at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At the request of the U.S. Army, CACI
has and continues to provide interrogation services in Iraq. But it has never
provided interrogation services at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan or any venue other
than Iraq.
While
Penguin has agreed to distribute erratum slips for insertion into the book, CACI
is concerned that a significant number of books already have been sold or will
be sold without the erratum sheet. Indeed, in random checks at local Washington,
D.C. area bookstores, CACI confirmed that copies are being sold without the
erratum sheet.
Continued
dissemination of the false statement about CACI poses a threat to the company’s
reputation. CACI calls upon all outlets engaged in distributing the book to
refrain from selling the book until the erratum sheets have been received and
inserted. The erroneous reference to CACI appears on page 191 and is immediately
followed by discussion of the two unnamed civilian contract interrogators. The
initial error makes it wrongly appear that these civilians were CACI employees.
They were not.
CACI is
also profoundly disturbed by the failure of co-authors Erik Saar and Viveca
Novak to contact CACI to check information about the company before including it
in their book. Had they bothered to perform this basic fact checking, they could
have avoided this extremely damaging error.
“The
authors did not do their homework. Had they called us to check their facts, they
would have known that we never provided interrogators at Guantanamo Bay,” CACI
Chairman and CEO Jack London said.
“My first
concern is CACI and its reputation. We will guard it vigilantly against unfair,
distorted or false statements.
“Our
continuing concern is that potentially thousands of people are going to read
this book and come away with false impressions of CACI,” London
added.
London
also noted that over the past year, CACI has withstood substantial and
continuing scrutiny of interrogation and other services it provided to assist
the U.S. Army in Iraq. The company has cooperated with all official
investigations into alleged prisoner abuse in Iraq and also provided a constant
flow of public information about its work in that country. That information,
provided through news releases, public teleconferences and still posted in a
special section on the company’s public Web site, made clear that CACI did not
provide interrogation services anywhere other than Iraq.
The
results of official inquiries have demonstrated that some initial allegations
about alleged misconduct by a CACI employee in Iraq were significantly
overstated at great harm to the company and its employees. CACI notes that no
company employee has been formally charged with any wrongdoing despite more than
a year of investigations.
“We
remain proud of the work CACI people have done and continue to do in Iraq to
support the U.S. military in its efforts to bring freedom and stability to that
country. We also are proud of the public way in which we have addressed the
allegations,” London said.
“Throughout
the past year, CACI has answered every question about interrogation services in
every forum. We have done everything that we know how to get the facts out. But
we have been constantly disappointed by the mistakes and distortions of those
who report about these matters. This is just one more example,” London
added.
CACI
International Inc provides the IT and network solutions needed to prevail in
today’s new era of defense, intelligence, and e-government. From systems
integration and managed network solutions to knowledge management, engineering,
simulation, and information assurance, we deliver the IT applications and
infrastructures our federal customers use to improve communications and
collaboration, secure the integrity of information systems and networks, enhance
data collection and analysis, and increase efficiency and mission effectiveness.
Our solutions lead the transformation of defense and intelligence, assure
homeland security, enhance decision-making, and help government to work smarter,
faster, and more responsively. CACI, a member of the Russell 2000 and S&P
SmallCap 600 indices, provides dynamic careers for approximately 9,500 employees
working in over 100 offices in the U.S. and Europe. CACI is the IT provider for
a networked world. Visit CACI on the web at
www.caci.com
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There
are statements made herein which do not address historical facts and, therefore
could be interpreted to be forward-looking statements as that term is defined in
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are
subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
anticipated results. The factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those anticipated include, but are not limited to, the
following: regional and national economic conditions in the United States and
the United Kingdom, including conditions that result from terrorist activities
or war; failure to achieve contract awards in connection with recompetes for
present business and/or competition for new business; the risks and
uncertainties associated with client interest in and purchases of new products
and/or services; continued funding of U.S. Government or other public sector
projects in the event of a priority need for funds, such as homeland security,
the war on terrorism or rebuilding Iraq; government contract procurement (such
as bid protest, small business set asides, etc.) and termination risks; the
results of government investigations into allegations of improper actions
related to the provision of services in support of U.S. military operations in
Iraq; the results of the appeal of CACI International Inc ASBCA No. 53058;
individual business decisions of our clients; paradigm shifts in technology;
competitive factors such as pricing pressures and/or competition to hire and
retain employees(particularly those with security clearances); material changes
in laws or regulations applicable to our businesses, particularly in connection
with (i) government contracts for services, (ii) outsourcing of activities that
have been performed by the government, and (iii) competition for task orders
under Government Wide Acquisition Contracts (“GWACs”) and/or schedule contracts
with the General Services Administration; our own ability to achieve the
objectives of near term or long range business plans; and other risks described
in the company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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For other
information contact:
Jody
Brown, Executive Vice President, Public Relations
(703)
841-7801,
jbrown@caci.com