Truth Out (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Heartbreaking stories of sexual assault perpetrated against female soldiers and military contractors, including those of Maria Lauterbach , Jamie Leigh Jones , and Lavena Johnson , have shown that women in the military face risk harassment, rape, and even murder. At an oversight hearing on s read more
Blog of the Moderate Left (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
You almost certainly remember the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, a KBR/Halliburton employee who was raped and imprisoned in Iraq, and only escaped because a sympathetic guard loaned her a cell phone that allowed her to call for help. Well, KBR has looked at the situation, and they’ve decided to take action. No, not by protecting [...]
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
When Jamie Leigh Jones was brutally gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq and then held against her will for several days in a shipping container to prevent her from reporting the rape, she was able... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The Jamie Leigh Jones-Halliburton rape case was horrific, but what happened to PFC Lavena Johnson in Iraq in 2005 was many orders of magnitudes worse. The parents of the young Missouri woman were told that she dies of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and her death was ruled a suicide. But her physician father became suspicious after looking at injuries to the body ...
DMI Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Cross-posted from TortDeform.Com: Wonderful news: a federal judge decided Friday that former KBR (a subsidiary of Halliburton) employee Jamie Leigh Jones should not be forced into arbitration for claims against the company, over KBR's objection that any and all...
Feminist Daily News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
A judge ruled on Friday that an alleged Halliburton/KBR rape case can go to court, rather than closed arbitration. Jamie Leigh Jones , a former employee of Halliburton and its then-subs...
TortsProf Blog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Jamie Leigh Jones's tort suit against KBR (and its former parent Halliburton) will, after the pure workplace claims are resolved, go to litigation. Details at Forbes (AP story) and TimesOnline; via TortDeform. Past post here. The opinion is here: Download...
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Jamie Leigh Jones' gang rape case against KBR employees can go to trial instead of arbitration. ( ABC ) "John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma's repressive regime. "( Newsweek ) Goodyear has resigned. ( Newsweek ) Lebanon Clashes Resume as Death Toll From Fighting Reaches 50. ( Bloomberg )( BBC )( AP ) Serbia's pro-Western...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
A US judge has taken a stand for justice and accountability over unchecked corporate power. Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang-raped when she was a KBR employee in Iraq, will have her case heard in court, not by arbitration. A Houston woman who says she was gang raped by co-workers at a Halliburton/KBR camp in Baghdad won a major court battle late Friday when a Texas judge ordered that she can bring her...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Ex-Washington Times editor Robert Stacy McCain defends meek trembling KBR/Halliburton from the greedy advances of Jamie Leigh Jones . So, you know, a few bad apples who happen to work for KBR gang-rape Jones, and it all kind of ends there. Er. Not really .
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
There are times when I wonder if justice is dead. Not today. The blindfolded lady's demise has been put off, and hope that there is some sanity left in the world can carry on, at least for a while longer. Jamie Leigh Jones, who claims a horrific gang rape by her KBR co-workers in Iraq and the subsequent attempt to cover it up, has won an initial victory. A Texas judge has ruled that her case can be...
Texas Kaos - Front Page (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Hooray for U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison not compelling her to go to arbitration. Obviously Halliburton and KBR wanted this kept quiet. Jamie Leigh Jones absolutely refuses to go away quietly; Testifying before Congress , allowing her name to be published, going on Dan Abrams and pursuing the trial. The AP story that ran in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is given more treatment later. I am so...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Source: [b]Associated Press[/b] [div class=excerpt]HOUSTON - A woman who said she was raped by co-workers while employed by a contractor in Iraq can take her claims to trial, a federal judge ruled Friday. Jamie Leigh Jones filed a federal lawsuit last year, saying she was attacked while workin...
Women's Space/The Margins (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Tracy Barker, former Halliburton/KBR Employee Last January I blogged about Jamie Leigh Jones, a Halliburton/KBR employee in Iraq who was brutally gang-raped by co-workers after having had her drink surreptitiously drugged. She was so badly injured in the attack, she required surgery. She was seen by a doctor and a rape kit documented the rapes (though [...]
Hot Links (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd
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KBR RAPE CASE ABUSED TRACY BARKER
why was Congressman Poe allowed to use and re victimize this rape victim for his own media attention for Jones case? Claimed Tracy came through his office...
anonymous - 05/11/2008