Edwin Marger and Bob Barr, attorneys for the parents of three "civilians fighting the military's battles", filed suit against Northrop Grumman and several other corporations, on their behalf for the death of their sons. The three were killed when the plane that they were flying crashed in Columbia. The suit claims that the plane was being used on behalf of the United States government in it's "war against drugs". Barr, who had written an adverse report on the way the project was being handled in Columbia, during the period of time that he was serving in the U.S. Congress, stated "that which he had prophesied, had come home to roost"