Jamie Leigh Jones, age 19, was drugged and gang-raped by fellow employees of Halliburton subsidiary KBR while working in Iraq. The company kept her locked in a crate for several days and then sent her home. The doctor’s notes and the crime reports have disappeared into KBR’s bureaucracy, and Halliburton tried invoking the fine print of her contract to avoid a lawsuit:
The Senate passed an amendment last night allowing employees like Jones to sue. Guess which Republican led the charge against it? Why, Alabama’s very own Jeff Sessions, who called it “unfair to Halliburton.” Fake pimps are a good reason to bust ACORN but billion-dollar fraud and actual rapes aren’t good reasons to bust a major Republican contributor. Ladies and gentlemen, the party of moral rectitude!
Franken is swiftly turning into the best thing to happen to the US Senate in a long time.
The Senate passed an amendment last night allowing employees like Jones to sue. Guess which Republican led the charge against it? Why, Alabama’s very own Jeff Sessions, who called it “unfair to Halliburton.” Fake pimps are a good reason to bust ACORN but billion-dollar fraud and actual rapes aren’t good reasons to bust a major Republican contributor. Ladies and gentlemen, the party of moral rectitude!
Here’s Senator Al Franken, who wrote the amendment, leaving the industry shill speechless in committee:
Franken is swiftly turning into the best thing to happen to the US Senate in a long time.
