UIC Law Review Volume 46 Issue 4 Article 6 2013 The Mercenary Gap: How to Protect the Constitutional Rights of American Contractors in the Age of the Private Military Firm, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1121 (2013) John Sviokla Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.uic.edu/lawreview Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, Fourteenth Amendment Commons, Fourth Amendment Commons, Litigation Commons, and the Military, War, and Peace Commons Recommended Citation John Sviokla, The Mercenary Gap: How to Protect the Constitutional Rights of American Contractors in the Age of the Private Military Firm, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1121 (2013) https://repository.law.uic.edu/lawreview/vol46/iss4/6 This Comments is brought to you for free and open access by UIC Law Open Access Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in UIC Law Review by an authorized administrator of UIC Law Open Access Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. L AW REVIEW The Mercenary Gap: How to Protect the Constitutional Rights of American Contractors in the Age of the Private Military Firm John J. Sviokla Volume 46 Summer 2013 Issue 4 Do Not Delete 1/21/2014 4:57 PM THE MERCENARY GAP:1 HOW TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CONTRACTORS IN THE AGE OF THE PRIVATE MILITARY FIRM JOHN J. SVIOKLA II I. INTRODUCTION Donald Vance, a private military firm employee,2 a modern day mercenary, sat at a coffee shop in Chicago’s loop knowing that he was going to put his life in peril by informing the FBI about his boss in Iraq.3 This was nothing new to Vance, a Navy veteran, he had served his country his entire life.4 The implicit promise had always been that when he was done taking care of his nation, his nation would tend to him.