I think the Agency and Congress need to think through the U.S. Government's moral responsibilities to any American, even a lowly contractor, that it puts into harms way by ordering them to engage in programs that are illegal under the host country's law.
Leahy emphasizes the moral obligations of the U.S. government towards its contractors.
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