"US defence companies are to be barred from lucrative government contracts if they refuse to allow employees access to the courts, after a woman working for Halliburton in Iraq was prevented from taking legal action over an alleged gang rape by fellow employees. Al Franken, the newest member of the Senate, has won an amendment to next year's defence appropriations bill prompted by the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, who alleges that she was drugged and raped by seven American contractors in Baghdad in 2005. Jones, who was employed by a Halliburton subsidiary, KBR, which was fighting oil fires, recounts a pattern of subsequent behaviour by the company, including locking her in a container under armed guard and the loss of crucial forensic evidence, that she says amounts to a cover-up." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

BTW, how in the world did the US government _hand over the forensic evidence to KBR_? - Andrew C (✓)