{"id":22282,"date":"2011-02-15T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22282"},"modified":"2011-02-15T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:37:17","slug":"gatesrumsfeld-named-in-rape-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22282","title":{"rendered":"Gates\/Rumsfeld named in rape suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader who just returned from a deployment sent us this link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2011-02-15\/robert-gates-sued-over-us-militarys-rape-epidemic\/?cid=hp:mainpromo4\">Daily Beast article<\/a> about a lawsuit that&#8217;s been filed against the Department of Defense pertaining to their inattention to rape cases;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Rebecca Havrilla, a former sergeant and explosive-ordnance-disposal technician] and 16 others are now plaintiffs in a class action suit filed Tuesday against Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, alleging that their failure to act amounted to a violation of the plaintiffs\u2019 Constitutional rights. The suit, brought by Washington, D.C. attorney Susan Burke, and filed in the Eastern Virginia federal court, charges that despite ample evidence of the problem, both Gates and Rumsfeld \u201cran institutions in which perpetrators were promoted; \u2026 in which Plaintiffs and other victims were openly subject to retaliation\u2026 and ordered to keep quiet.\u201d The plaintiffs, in turn, have been \u201cdirectly and seriously injured by Defendants\u2019 actions and omissions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The person who sent us the link pretty much agrees that, whether or not the  incidents or victims have judicial merit, the problem is not as wide spread to be characterized as a culture that was fostered by any unwritten policy. I understand that despite a published policy, some commanders may bend those policies, and that&#8217;s their discretion &#8211; that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re commanders. But to blame the entire DoD is just ridiculous. <\/p>\n<p>Susan Burke was also the lead attorney against Kellog, Brown and Root&#8217;s burn pits, so I&#8217;m guessing she only chases military ambulances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader who just returned from a deployment sent us this link to a Daily Beast &hellip; <a title=\"Gates\/Rumsfeld named in rape suit\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22282\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gates\/Rumsfeld named in rape suit<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}