WaPo: Misleading Headline?: 'House Bill Restricts Contractors'

[spanone]

I wouldn't say 'restricts', maybe 'operate within the law?'.

House Acts in Wake of Blackwater Incident
Measure Is Passed to Place Wartime Contractors Under U.S. Courts' Jurisdiction

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 5, 2007; Page A06

Prompted by last month's deadly shootings in Baghdad by armed guards working for Blackwater USA, the House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to place all private contractors working in Iraq and other combat zones under the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.

The 389 to 30 vote expanding the scope of the existing Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act came over the strong opposition of the Bush administration, which objected to its broad application to a wide range of contractors working for U.S. agencies overseas.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100400282.html?hpid=topnews

[Kagemusha]

1. What's wrong with it?...

When you operate in a lawless environment and suddenly you no longer are doing so, how is it not a restriction, compared to what existed before?

[AlCzervik]

2. the times headline was better imo.