Halliburton/KBR used a clause in her contract requiring disputes to be settled by arbitration to block legal action – a policy which, her lawyer says, has encouraged assaults by creating a climate of impunity.

Franken described it as a denial of justice. "Contractors are using fine print to deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court," he said in a Senate debate.

In legal papers Jones, who was 20 at the time, says she was fed a knockout drug while drinking with KBR firefighters.

"When she awoke the next morning still affected by the drug, she found her body naked and severely bruised, with lacerations to her vagina and anus, blood running down her leg, her breast implants ruptured and her pectoral muscles torn‚ which would later require reconstructive surgery. Upon walking to the rest room, she passed out again," the papers say.

Yes, Halliburton aka Xe, is a fine tool for spreading Freedom, Democracy and respect for Human Rights

Our lawmakers need to take a good look at the relationships they have with their own mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, and then seriously get to work addressing rape as a capital crime.

Rapists who are convicted beyond a reasonable doubt of their culpability must be removed as a threat to society, via chemical castration and incarcerated for life without the possibility of parole.