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Via Matt Yglesias, a story about Jamie Leigh Jones, a former employee of Haliburton/KBR who told ABC news she was gang-raped at a KBR camp in the Green Zone in Iraq, then held in a shipping container without food or water and threatened with termination if she sought medical treatment. All this allegedly happened over two years ago and the Justice Department has still failed to bring charges. The State Department and KBR have failed to investigate. Evidently no court has jurisdiction over the contractors, and no agency has any responsibility to pursue the matter.

If Jones’ allegations are true, the lesson is that this government's convenient little “law free zones” at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and black sites around the world don't discriminate between "us" and "them." If an innocent American finds herself in such a law-free zone, she’s as unlikely as any alleged terrorist to find her day in court.