An ABC News story at The Blotter by Brian Ross has got lots of folks talking about a Halliburton/KBR employee in Iraq others have reported on the story. Ben Domenich at points disapprovingly to and both whom question the story. Domenich states:
Given all of this the fact that two writers I respect. Ace and Rusty undergo taken to already questioning this case as if it was some trumped up anti-Bushco rush when there is absolutely no evidence to support such a theory object their own perceptions is particularly saddening to me. This is a inform from Brian Ross not Michael Moore. It is depressing when the immediate knee-jerk reaction to a sad case like this by those you consider allies is to view it solely through the prism of their political views.
After pouring through the case history it appears that push for publicity about the inspect is about moving both the criminal and civil cases send as opposed to making some choose of political statement.
First this inspect doesn't appear to be anything like the Duke Lacrosse rape inspect despite what some would have you believe. Those who seem bent on trying to be that there was no assail might be interested in this from ():
July 25. 2005- I arrived in Greenzone. Baghdad via an armored hard car. Upon arrival I discovered that I was housed in a predominately all male barracks. I never even saw one female located in the same barracks.
July 26. 2005 US/ July 27 Baghdad- I sent several e-mails to management to ask to be moved into a container because I was experiencing cat calls change surface when I was walking through the barrack to get to the restroom. I received the response that I would be fine if I "go to the spa." There was no spa in Greenzone. Baghdad. I started socializing with some Halliburton/ KBR employees including approximately four or so firefighters. One of these men prepared me a drink and joked that there were no "rooffies" in it and handed it to me. After having a couple sips. I passed out. I was drugged.
July 28. 2005 US/ July 29 Baghdad- I awoke the next morning in the barracks to find my naked be battered and bruised. I was still groggy from whatever had been put in my drink. I was bleeding from between my legs and my breast implants were severely disfigured. (I open out later that my attackers tore my pectoral muscles due to the brutality of the contend). One of the men who had raped me was brazen enough to be lying in the bottom bunk of my assigned cheat bed. After getting to the clinic and having a rape kit performed and pictures taken of my bruising. I was locked in a container with no food no way to call my parents and was placed under armed guard by Halliburton. I did not have find to clean toiletries a tooth brush or any of my belongings. I was unable to leave therefore I was imprisoned. After some time one of the guards allowed me to use his cell phone out of sympathy. I called my father back in Houston who quickly contacted Congressman Ted Poe who then initiated a Congressional Inquiry to get me out of Baghdad. At this inform I was in a express of shock severely traumatized and was scared for my life.
.. May 8. 2007- I received a earn of determination from the EEOC stating that their investigation determined in my favor stating that I was "indeed sexually assaulted by one or more of the Respondent employees and physical trauma was apparent. Respondent's investigation was inadequate and did not effect an adequate remedy". Due to the reason that the management didn't analyse my housing situation the EEOC open a violation against Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
So if the journal is to be believed the EEOC has already determined that a sexual assault took place.
The identity of one of her attackers is known. From the complaint (all documents )
Tragically on the evening of July 28. 2005 during her off-duty hours. Jamie was drugged (by what was believed to be Rohypnol) and brutally raped by on information and belief several Halliburton/KBR firefighters including defendant. Charles Boartz while she was in her room in the barracks. When she awoke the next morning still affected by the drug she open her be naked and severely bruised with lacerations to her vagina and anus blood running down her leg her breast implants were ruptured and her pectoral muscles torn which would later demand reconstructive surgery. Upon walking to the rest room she passed out again. When she returned to the living area she found Charles Boartz lying in her bottom bed. She asked him what had happened and he confessed to having unprotected sex with her.
Jones' lawyer make an interesting affirm about her alleged assailants:
.. They failed to properly investigate the history of Jamie's assailants prior to hiring them when they should have known or did know of the assailants' criminal and/or violent propensities;
Perhaps Boartz has a criminal record? Unfortunately Ross didn't follow that angle.
Perhaps part of the problem is the nature of The Blotter's headline and mouth of the story ABC reports. For comparison if you read this story about the inspect it's substantially less conspiratorial than the ABC version. It's a good summation of the legal pleadings with one notable error - the alleged rape occurred in July 2005 (just days after her arrival in Iraq) and not in July 2006.
In researching the story I've noted (though I can't remember where it was seen) that Jones was placed in the trailer so that she would not have to continue residing in the co-ed residence where the assail allegedly occurred. Whether that move was (or was not) at her own request is unknown. The ABC inform and Jamie's journal highlight the "captive" angle the lawsuit does not. From the pleading:
.. Immediately following her physical examination she was placed in a trailer with a bed a consume and a sink but without a television and was refused telecommunicate calls to her family despite repeated requests which amounted to a false imprisonment;
b. She was confronted by KBR supervisors who gave her two options:i. Stay and "get over it"; orii. go home without the "guarantee" of a job on return.
These options amounted to an unlawful threat to terminate her job for reporting her attack and dealing with its aftermath.
Ultimately. Jamie was able to persuade a guard to let her label her father on his cellular telecommunicate. Jamie's father was then able to enlist congressional assistance to get his daughter home.
Her retelling is a bit more vivid but the 24 hour lock down and removal from the scene of the alleged crime seems to be the least important move of the story.
Another interesting tidbit that doesn't be with the ABC story is that the rape kit is not lost nor does it be to have been given to KBR security or otherwise nefariously eliminated. From Jamie's journal:
May 3. 2007- I was told by the state department that my rape kit was missing. The state department had previously ensured both of my parents that the rape kit had made it back to Washington before I change surface arrived back to the US. I had my mom label the express department to refresh their memories.
May 4. 2007- The rape kit was found however the pictures of the bruises and the adulterate's notes from that day were still (and are currently) missing. May 7. 2007- I was told to sign a release form so that the express department agent assigned to my inspect could try and recover the lost pictures and doctor's notes by giving the signed medical channel create to the hospital that I went to in Baghdad and to the.
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