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DOJ Shuns Halliburton Rape Cases

Thu, 12/20/2007 - 10:30
Submitted by Carlin Ross

This comes as no surprise. Seems the guys at Halliburton have been raping their female counterparts stuck in Iraq with the protection of a tent. And the DOJ is refusing to investigate.

Funny, Blackwater can shoot the NY Times dog (didn't we all get upset over the Michael Vick dog fighting scandal and throw the mother fucker in jail) and the White House comes out with a statement defending them and Halliburton can rape women with no investigation. Right?

The Department of Justice refused to send a representative to answer questions from Congress today on the investigations into allegations of rape and sexual assault on female American contractors.

"I'm embarrassed that the Department of Justice can't even come forward," said the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, D-Mich.

"This is an absolute disgrace," said Conyers. "The least we could do is have people from the Department of Justice and the Defense over here talking about how we're going to straighten out the system right away."

Among the witnesses who testified today was Jamie Leigh Jones, who appeared on "20/20" last week.

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Jones, now 23, says that after she'd been raped by multiple assailants in her room at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, she was warned by company officials that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.

To date there has been no prosecution of the men who Jones says gang-raped her.

Jones' congressman, Ted Poe, R-Texas, also testified at the hearing and told the committee how he has not been given any answers as to the status of the investigation by DOJ or the State Department.

"The Department of Justice has not informed Jamie or me of the status of a criminal investigation against her rapist if any investigation exists," Poe said today. "It is interesting to note that the Department of Justice has thousands of lawyers but not one from the barrage of lawyers is here to tell us what if anything they are doing. Their absence and silence speaks volumes about the hidden crimes in Iraq. Their attitude seems to be one of blissful indifference to American workers in Iraq," said Poe.

Jones told Congress that it wasn't until after she was interviewed by "20/20," that an assistant U.S. attorney in Florida questioned her about her case.

"I asked the AUSA, 'Where should I refer victims to contact me?' and she responded, 'Don't refer them to my office, but you may want to refer them to the office of victims of crime,'" Jones recounted for Congress today.

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Thu, 12/20/2007 - 17:25
theboyfriend

I heard about this on democracynow.org last week.
The big problem with these American companies over there is that they are in a loop hole, one I believe is intentional, that leaves them outside both Iraqi and American justice systems. At the moment there is no legal avenue to prosecute things like this or the blackwater shootings. The DOJ is even refusing to find a way to close the loop hole. It's enfuriating. The reasons are obvious, these companies are greasing all the right palms in the white house.
Money, Money, Money.

Sat, 12/22/2007 - 21:40
Carlin Ross

here's the latest. The story goes that this woman can't sue Halliburton and the Department of Justice can't investigate because when she was hired she signed her employment agreement that included a binding arbitration clause (if she had any legal matter with the company she had to arbitrate the issue at her expense unless the company is found guilty).

And guess who started this arbitration policy: Dick Cheney.