• Step 1) Drug a young attractive American woman and gang rape her vaginally and anally
• Step 2) Lock her in a trailer under armed guards with no food and water for 24 hours so she can't talk to anybody about it.
• Step 3) Destroy evidence of the crime
• Step 4) 2 years later, after failing to investigate, don't even bother to show up to testify at Congressional hearings

Appearing before a hearing on the enforcement of laws to protect Americans working in Iraq, Ms Jones said that on her fourth day in Baghdad some co-workers, who she described as Halliburton-KBR firefighters, invited her for a drink. "I took two sips from the drink and don't remember anything after that," she said.

The next morning she woke up groggy and confused, and with a sore chest and blood between her legs. She reported the incident to KBR and was examined by an army doctor, who said she had been repeatedly raped vaginally and anally.

"The KBR security took me to a trailer and then locked me in a room with two armed guards outside my door," Ms Jones said. "I was imprisoned in the trailer for approximately a day. One of the guards finally had mercy and let me use a phone."

An army doctor collected DNA evidence, including vaginal swabs and scrapings from her fingernails, and placed them in a box for evidence. Ms Jones said the doctor gave the box to a KBR security officer but it went missing. A State Department diplomatic security agent recovered the kit in May 2007, but the doctor's notes and photographs are now inexplicably missing, undermining any chances of bringing the case through the criminal courts.
Destruction of evidence at Cheney's old company? Get out.

The Department of Justice refused to send a representative to answer questions from Congress today on the investigations into allegations of rape and sexual assault on female American contractors.

"I'm embarrassed that the Department of Justice can't even come forward," said the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, D-Mich.

"This is an absolute disgrace," said Conyers. "The least we could do is have people from the Department of Justice and the Defense over here talking about how we're going to straighten out the system right away."

"The Department of Justice has not informed Jamie or me of the status of a criminal investigation against her rapist if any investigation exists," Poe said today. "It is interesting to note that the Department of Justice has thousands of lawyers but not one from the barrage of lawyers is here to tell us what if anything they are doing. Their absence and silence speaks volumes about the hidden crimes in Iraq. Their attitude seems to be one of blissful indifference to American workers in Iraq," said Poe.