The Daily Muck

Jamie Leigh Jones has filed a federal suit against Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR, asserting that she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone and that the company and U.S. government are covering up the assault. After the rape, she says, she was put under guard in a shipping container with a bed and told that if she left Iraq for medical treatment she’d be fired. (ABC)

A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner is urging U.S. authorities to preserve CIA photos that would prove his client was tortured when the CIA allegedly flew him to Morocco for questioning about al-Qaeda. The lawyer for British resident Binyam Mohamed says his client was subjected to “medieval torture” during 18 months in captivity, and that any evidence against him came from torture. (AP)

A government lawyer is arguing that Christine Todd Whitman, a former Environmental Protection Agency chief, should not be held personally liable for her reassurances to N.Y.C residents that the air near the World Trade Center wreckage was safe to breathe right after the 2001 terrorist attack. The precedent it could establish, that of holding public officials personally responsible for their actions, is considered too dangerous. (Boston Globe)

Federal agents raided the office of Dickie Scruggs’ attorney, Joey Langston, and seized files related to allegations that Scruggs and his son conspired to bribe a judge. One of the law firm’s (Langston) former partners has pleaded guilty already to conspiracy charges in the case. (Boston Globe)

The CIA agent who was videotaped waterboarding a suspected terrorist in the now destroyed CIA tapes, says that what he did was torture. However, five of the Republican presidential candidates are holding fast to their opinion that waterboarding is fine, even if it violates the U.S. Army Field Manual. McCain, Huckabee, and Paul have condemned the interrogation technique. (AP, McClatchy)

Service members and their families gamble at military slot machines and bingo games, and their losses earn the military approximately $130 million each year, which it channels into recreation programs. Critics say it is preying on its own and abetting an addiction the Defense Department has no centralized policy to deal with. (The Hill)

Voters in Potrero, California are preparing to remove from local office five members of an advisory planning board who approved of Blackwater’s plans to construct an 800 acre training facility with firing ranges, a driving track, and helipad. Three of the board’s nine members have already been removed as improper appointees. The town outside San Diego may be ideal for Blackwater’s entry into border surveillance operations or drug interdiction. (AP, New York Times)

A Seton Hall professor will offer testimony to Congress today alleging that the Pentagon overstates the number of former Guantanamo Bay detainees who enter into terrorist activity after release. The professor asserts that the Pentagon has cited evidence for only 15 former detainees but publicly assert that the number is 30. (Washington Post)