More American Injustice

Back in December, we learned the painful story of Jamie Leigh Jones, who says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad.
This week, it appears that Jones is without legal recourse since employees of U.S. contractors in Iraq are beyond the reach of the Iraqi criminal justice system and the Justice Department has shown no interest in prosecuting Jones’s case. To make things worse, as Peggy Garrity points out in an op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times, Jones also will likely be unable to pursue a lawsuit in civil court.
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