Sen. Al Franken's amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill passed yesterday; the amendment penalizes companies that restricts claims of sexual assualt and discrimination to arbitration. The opposition claims that this is "a political attack" aimed at Halliburton/KBR.

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was [...]