KBR Bans the Use of Cell Phones by Employees Just Because They Can?

by Teh Nutroots | They actually don't say why, but of course we have our suspicions, don't we?  Think Progress tells me:

Though KBR has not indicated the ban is related to the numerous allegations of rape by female KBR employees by their male coworkers, the ban could endanger future victims. Jamie Leigh Jones, the first victim to come forward publicly, explained that after she was gang-raped by coworkers and held in a shipping container for days, “she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas.” (TP)

Yeah, though of course one wants to avoid the fallacy of 'post hoc ergo propter hoc,' the implementation of this peculiar role for no reason---not even an irrational one---smells bad to me.

Memeorandum has more here.

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