Would the army turn their information or evidence over to Halliburton? Why wasn't it given to a Federal prosecutor or stayed in the army? Since when does an agency give evidence to my employer? They are supposed to get copies or something, not the originals which they can make disappear which means she'll pretty much lose becuase that evidence is the only kind in a rape trial. They'll just say she's nuts, she wanted to gang bang and she tried blackmailing Halliburton by making up the whole "rape".

Tell me again why the free market is more noble, honest and correct than the government and how exactly law suits by individuals will correct corporate malfesance?

It's a shame that could have happended to her and I hope if what she says is true comes out, that somehow people can use it against the evil that is Halliburton. Overpaid criminal mercenaries.

Why would they be held liable for raping a female co-worker in Baghdad when they can't be held liable for murdering the local females? That little document that Brenner signed really sets some folks outside the law.

The lost evidence might be useful in a civil trial, if she can name names and catch those guys on U.S. soil. Suing the company might cut into their profits from building prisons in the US, but they'll just tack the damages onto a contract so that the citizenry pays.

Wouldn't it be nice if a few of the security firms declared war on each other? Maybe that's one reason so many contracts are no bid.

I would love to think there will be justice done at the end of this but I doubt it. I am a man who loves women, I listen to Intimate Partner Violence stories as part of my job, I hear stories of abuse from female friends, I hear male friends discount the whole subject, and I am at a total loss as to how to make men behave humanely towards women (and other men as well). Obviously no person deserves what this woman seems to have gone through.

Oh, this is so shocking. I know that women are brutalized everyday across the globe, but to hear it happening in a place where we are supposedly the "good guys" makes me sick to my stomach.

I hope and pray that this youg woman will have the strength and perservance to continue telling her story and ultiemaly receive retribution.

Why would the Army hand over evidence to Halliburton?

Wikipedia had this to say about Ted Poe:

"After serving as a chief felony prosecutor in Harris County (Houston) for eight years, Poe was appointed a felony court judge in Harris County in 1981, becoming one of the youngest judges in the State of Texas. Poe was one of the first Republican judges elected in Harris County since Reconstruction. In this position, he gained national prominence for his unusual criminal sentences that included ordering thieves to carry signs in front of stores from which they stole; required men who abused their wives to publicly apologize on the steps of Houston’s City Hall; commanded sex offenders to place warning signs on their home after serving jail time; and directed murderers to securely place a photo of their victims on the wall of their prison cells, creating a daily reminder of their crime. In a story that is part of jailhouse lore in Texas, he reportedly told a defendant at sentencing of his intention to throw some pennies in the air and, however many hit the ground, would be the number of years the defendant was going to serve. After flinging an entire jar of pennies, he informed the man that the sentence would be twenty years. Ted Poe became well known to most offenders in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, even those from beyond Houston."

Here's hoping Representative Poe can use his influence to persuade the judge presiding over this case to make the entire CEO board of Halliburton/KBR post sex offender signs on their front lawns.

I know of a case of a woman of color who was raped by a white man and who was told by the police to go home and forget prosecuting because no one would believe her. They would not even take a report. That's white power.

I know of a circumstance where a district attorney who didn't want to prosecute child molestation cases rountinely lost the taped evidence. That's adult power.

I know of a woman who suffered years of beating at the hands of a husband who finally got the courage to leave him and went to a hotel room. When he tried to break into her hotel room to batter or to kill her, she shot and killed him instead. She went to prison for a long time. That's male power.

I know of a case where a woman who was trying to shield her son from his molesting father was forced to surrender custody to that father by a judge who simply didn't like that she questioned his authority. That's judicial power.

I know of a cases of women who were battered and children who were molested which never saw the inside of the courtroom, because the Mormon bishop said he had spoken to the husband or father and he assured the county attorney that it wouldn't happen again. That's religious power.

I know of a case where a woman claimed to have been raped by the attorney general of a state, but years later, when she tried to tell the tale, no one allowed her to testify because she had once had an affair with a married man and thus tainted her good name. It didn't matter that the married man eventually became her husband. That's political power.

The case described in the current article about Halliburton's coverup? That's money power.

However there is another sort of power. It is the power of surviving to tell whether anyone believes you or not. It is the power of speaking the truth. It is the power of narration, of setting to drumbeats or iambic or paper one's own sacred personal story.

I remember the last words of the one of the incested women in the movie "A Thousand Acres": "I never forgave the unforgivable."

No. Never.