CLOSING LEGAL LOOPHOLES: PROSECUTING SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES COMMITTED OVERSEAS BY AMERICAN CIVILIANS IN A COMBAT ENVIRONMENT HEARING before the COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Time: 9:30 A.M. Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building Presiding: Senator Nelson         Witnesses:     Panel 1: The Honorable Sigal P. Mandelker    Deputy Assistant Attorney General    Criminal Division    Department of Justice    Washington, DC Mr. Gregory B. Starr    Acting Assistant Secretary,    Bureau of Diplomatic Security,    and Acting Director of the Office of Foreign Missions    Department of State    Washington, DC Mr. Robert Reed    Associate Deputy General Counsel    (Military Justice and Personnel Policy)    Office of the General Counsel    Department of Defense Mr. John B. Wiegmann    Assistant Legal Advisor for Management    Department of State    Washington, DC     Panel 2: Mrs. Mary Beth Kineston    Former KBR Contractor    Camp Anaconda    Balad, Iraq Mr. Eugene R. Fidell, Esq.    Senior Partner    Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell, LLP    Washington, DC Ms. Lisa Smith    Former KBR Contractor    Camp Harper    Basra, Iraq   Hearing Titles in blue are links to video recording of hearing. Witness names in blue are links to the statement given. Statements are only posted if provided electronically by witness.