Jamie Leigh Jones (born 1984) is a former KBR employee who claims that she was drugged and gang-raped by seven KBR employees in 2005 in Camp Hope, Baghdad, Iraq. She filed a civil lawsuit against KBR and its former parent corporation...
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Jamie Leigh Jones (born 1984) is a former KBR employee who claims that she was drugged and gang-raped by seven KBR employees in 2005 in Camp Hope, Baghdad, Iraq. She filed a civil lawsuit against KBR and its former parent corporation Halliburton in 2007. In 2009, the 5th Circuit Court f Appeals in New Orleans ruled Jamie Leigh Jones' federal lawsuit against KBR and some of its affiliates can be tried in open court.
Senator Al Franken (D-MN)
Well, frumps, every once in a while, things workout right – the chambermaid wins the lottery, the tornado misses your house, the amendment passes without getting the stuffing kicked out of it. That last one was just reported today. You might remember that one of Al Franken’s first legislative moves as a freshman senator was to draft an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill.
Oddly enough the amendment attached to the Defense spending bill... Read Full Story
Charlie Melancon may be a stone cold Dixiecrat, Dixiecrats in the south are notorious for pimping black and female voters , but he's trying to reinvent himself and his campaign may have found just the ticket to close the gap between himself and David Vitter. Charlie showed me a little something when he showed up at the New Orleans Town Hall despite initially planning on not attending, may be he's ready to get with the program. With his recent ads criticizing Vitter it looks... Read Full Story
The Daily Show , known in its current incarnation as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , is an American late night satirical TV show that dialed in its probing tragicomedy microscope on Republican's sick and twisted love affair with the likes of a profiteering war industry. ( See the clip here ) It's a shame a fake news show picked this up...while most mainstream media would rather report on f***ing "Balloon Boy." The Gist Republicans lined up in droves to vote against Franken Amdt. No. 2588... Read Full Story
KBR responds to ex-worker’s gang-rape claim
07:27 AM CDT on Thursday, October 22, 2009
By Len Cannon/ 11 News
HOUSTON—A woman claimed she was gang-raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for the Houston-based company KBR, but the company said those allegations are not true. Jamie Leigh Jones said she has been waiting for years for her attackers [...] Read Full Story
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I find it stunningly shameful that in 2009, amendments like this are still needed…
n 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her... Read Full Story
Jamie Leigh Jones
Well, frumps, another day another little spoonful of insanity. The recent passage of Senator Franken’s amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill 2010 demonstrates, once again, how far the GOP has strayed from the most basic human values in their obsessive zeal to crush the Obama administration and any who support it.
Given the number of GOP sex scandals that have come to light over the past year or so, it is looking like the Party of Family Values may be... Read Full Story
Senator Al Franken succeeded in getting his first piece of legislation passed, an amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would prohibit defense contractors from requiring employees to submit to mandatory arbitration. The amendment was prompted by the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, who has been attempting to sue Haliburton and KBR over claims that she was raped and held against her will by co-workers. The amendment passed overwhelmingly, with only 30 Senators opposed. What is interesting... Read Full Story
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress :
Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR's Treatment Of Rape — In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water … Read Full Story
Franken amendment to give assault victims day in court
NEWS RELEASE
Washington, D.C. – Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) yesterday (Thursday, Oct. 1) introduced an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that would ban the practice of committing employees to arbitration in the case of assault. The legislation was inspired by the story of Jamie Leigh Jones and [...] Read Full Story
