Conyers requests Justice Department info on Halliburton rape cover-up  House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) sent a letter today to the Justice Department calling for information on the status of a Department inquiry into the alleged rape of a 22-year-old Jamie Leigh Jones, a female Halliburton/KBR employee who, according to ABC News, was held captive two years ago in Baghdad and told that she would be fired if she left for medical care.
“We are writing to follow up on the letter sent yesterday by Representative Poe concerning the Department's response to American Jamie Leigh Jones' report that she was assaulted and raped by fellow employees of Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad,” the letter says, “and that in the aftermath of this assault she was imprisoned under armed guard for over 24 hours without food or water.”
In their memo, the two Representatives call the news “deeply troubling” and argue that it raises broader questions about the Justice Department’s role in “enforcing laws protecting Americans who are working in Iraq.”
Requesting Attorney General Michael Mukasey respond no later than December 18, Conyers and Poe conclude with a series of questions. They ask whether the Department thinks it has jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute if the accusations are accurate, if the Department has investigated Ms. Jones' claims and if so, what the status of the query is, and if the Department issued an instruction to KBR to cease its own investigation by U.S. government authorities because "they were assuming sole responsibility for the criminal investigations."
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