WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged top Bush administration officials to investigate a former contractor’s allegations that she was raped and detained by co-workers in Iraq.
The New York senator called for the probe of Jamie Leigh Jones’ allegations in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
“These claims must be taken seriously and the U.S. government must act immediately to investigate Ms. Jones’s claims,” Clinton said in the letter released Wednesday.
Jones filed a federal lawsuit in May against Halliburton Co., its former subsidiary, KBR Inc., and others claiming she was raped while working for a Halliburton subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005.
