Showers built by Haliburton subsidiary, “won” the no-bid contracts- killing troops..

The investigation into the multiple deaths and injuries resulted in the military fingering KBR as the culprit as they used unskilled labor and cut corners to save money on the construction tens of thousands of facilities. Using this information, Sgt. Maseth’s parents brought a wrongful death case against KBR in 2009. On Friday, however, KBR successfully had the case dismissed using one of the more obscene justifications imaginable:

In her 87-page ruling, Judge Fischer agreed with the Texas-based contractor that “further adjudication of this dispute will inextricably lead to consideration of military judgments for which no judicially manageable standards exist.”
“Specifically, further adjudication of this case will require evaluation of the military’s decision to continue to house soldiers in hardstand buildings with hazardous electrical systems even though the military was aware that the buildings lacked grounding and bonding and the military possessed specific knowledge that such electrical deficiencies had resulted in electrocutions to military personnel, causing injuries and even deaths, prior to the events of this case,” she wrote.

Translation: “The military knew and let the problem continue so KBR is allowed to use that as cover.” But why does that allow KBR off the hook?

“While we believe that Plaintiffs and their experts have made a compelling case challenging the safety of KBR’s electrical work … we do not believe that this case can be further adjudicated without questioning the military’s wartime decisions which directly affected the safety of the electrical facilities in the building,” Fischer wrote. “It is not the role of the judiciary to pass judgment on the military’s decisions which affect the safety of a military base located in an active war zone and we conclude that an evaluation of KBR’s defenses cannot be divorced from these military decisions.”

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/07/23/military-contractor/