Comments on: The Jamie Leigh Jones gang rape case

By: sanity

sanity — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:42:39 +0000

One report i read is that it was a single person she was accusing of rape. She had a torn pectoral muscle adn a burst implant.

Then lawyers got involved, it went ot gang rape, then on to KBR and Halliburton, in which Halliburton was not even associated with KBR at the time.

Other reports I heard is she recieved immediate medical treatment from KBR and was shipped out.

By: Amy Proctor

Amy Proctor — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:04:37 +0000

Well, at least I’m not the only whose suspicious. It just doesn’t sound right for the reasons we’ve discussed above.

I feel guilty doubting a woman but it smells as fishy as the Baghdad Diarist.

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:08:11 +0000

Don Surber took some undeserved heat for his position on this issue. While I am more suspicious of the allegations than he is, I am willing to wait for an investigation before saying anything more. And it is possible that ABC got it right for the same reason that a stopped clock gives accurate time twice a day.

By: mahwah

mahwah — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:50:17 +0000

What raises a red flag about this story, to me, is the statement she makes early on in her chronological accounting of her employment with KBR in Houston in which she tells of her immediate supervisor using his influence to ‘extract sexual favors’ from her early on in her employment, but then, at a later time, she ‘gains evidence of his harrassment’ and asks to be removed from his supervision. To me, this sounds like she acquiesced to his requests for the ’sexual favors’, at least for a while (instead of reporting him immediately?) – and then decided she’d had enough of it and got a change in her work environment. What isn’t stated in her story is the fact that later on, the same supervisor tried to get re-assigned out to Iraq to be her supervisor again. Huh??!! You get slapped down and disciplined corporately for sexual misconduct with an employee, and then months later, you try to go back for more? Either there was much, much more to this situation that isn’t being told by Ms. Jones, or this supervisor of hers is incredibly stupid. It does bring to mind a personal experience I once had.

Years ago I worked in a industrial environment , primarily male, where a young woman was employed as ‘administrative assistant’ (secretary) . Almost immediately after her hire, it became obvious that this young woman had no qualms at all about handing out sexual favors to the bosses in the office to get what she wanted – pay raises, time off, short hours, etc. It was a well known goings-on in the office, and eventually, she pushed the envelope too far, and had to be let go. Of course she then tried to sue the company for sexual harrassment. One of the top managers lost his job over it and I don’t know what she got as compensation. I do know for a fact that she was a willing participant in the so-called harrassment – she propositioned me several times explicitly, but gave up after a few “Thanks, but no thanks”.

Oh, yeah, and the fact that Hollywood is jumping to make a movie made about her ‘experience’ doesn’t help the credibility factor much with me either. To me, this story just doesn’t pass the smell test, at least initially.

I can only hope that justice is served in this matter, whatever that may be.

By: benning

benning — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:17:07 +0000

Let’s wait and see.

By: Tango

Tango — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:05:58 +0000

I’m with you Amy. If this story is legit (as opposed to this woman just being a crackpot) -then get a rope! But the rush to tar & feather the eeeeevil Haliburton in connection with this makes me decidedly wary.

By: Amy Proctor

Amy Proctor — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:55:25 +0000

Sorry to keep repeating myself!

I could be wrong, my point is that is sounds suspect. But I could be wrong. I’ll have to follow this story..

By: Amy Proctor

Amy Proctor — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:54:11 +0000

And why would a rape kit administered by Army medics disappear? Army medics wouldn’t hand over a rape kit to the perpetrators. This falls under the jurisdition of U.S. government/military and they would conduct/maintain the evidence. Its’ a criminal charge, not an in-house company issue. A violent federal crime conducted on foreign soil under U.S. jurisdiction wouldn’t lend itself to this sort of conduct.

By: Amy Proctor

Amy Proctor — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:49:10 +0000

I’m not sure we’ve heard the end of this story. My first reaction is disbelief (although not a willful suspension of, just a gut reaction). Gang raped in the Green Zone?? It’s not like we haven’t heard elaborate made up stories from war opponents before, like the New Republic soldier.

I try to give women the benefit of the doubt but this sounds fishy to me.

By: camojack

camojack — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:49:07 +0000

Hopefully justice will be served.

That won’t take away her trauma, of course.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:42:10 +0000

I agree that it looks true from what I’ve read.

And whomever did the despicable or covered it up should be held accountable to the max.

Psycho criminals are in lots of organizations and I don’t get why some taint the “company” or the mission.

GM, or Halliburton, or Republicans are names. If there are people who are evil or criminals they should be held fully accountable.