GI Casket Photog Sued Cheney in 2000

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/23/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

A cargo handler in Kuwait fired from her job this week for photographing the caskets of GIs killed in Iraq, along with the friend who helped her get the photograph published in the Seattle Times, say their decision to go public had nothing to do with politics.

But it turns out that four years ago the duo, Tami Silicio and Amy Katz, sued Halliburton, then run by Vice President Dick Cheney, naming Cheney in the suit.

Reports unearthed by KTTH Seattle radio host Mike Siegel reveal that Katz and Silicio, who was fired Wednesday for violating the Pentagon's policy against photographing the caskets of slain GI's, sued Halliburton for sexual harassment while they worked for the company's subsidiary, Brown & Root, in Kosovo.

The Sept. 2000 lawsuit claimed that it was discriminatory for the company to accommodate Arab cultural customs by maintaining separate bathrooms for host country nationals and Americans.

"I was totally outraged. I refused to use the ones for the Americans,” Katz told CBS News at the time. "I tried to explain that I thought this was terrible and it was my way of protesting it.”

Katz was joined in her legal complaint against Cheney's company by Silicio, who has been the subject of a torrent of sympathetic media coverage since her dismissal from her a different contractor, Maytag Aircraft, was announced on Thursday.

On Sept. 22, 2000 the San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage reported:

"Tami Silicio, drove a truck for the company, which she noted is traditionally a male profession. When she refused sexual propositions from co-workers, they started calling her names like 'bitch' and 'whore,' according to a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission.

"Additionally, the coworkers told her 'you should be at home pleasing a man and not at work trying to be one.' After reporting this to upper management, she was fired in retaliation, according to the complaint."

Seattle attorney Patricia Buchanan represented both women in the lawsuit.

Radio host Siegel said on Friday that the Katz-Silicio lawsuit against Cheney raises questions about the politics behind the casket photo story, saying the two women likely had an axe to grind against the Bush administration.

He also chastised the press for not noting the Katz-Silicio lawsuit, saying, "What does that say about the Seattle Times, which printed the photo without doing any investigation."

Ms. Katz insisted last night that neither she nor Silicio had any political motivation, telling MSNBC that they thought publishing the photo was a good way of honoring the fallen troops.

She admitted, however, that she has retained an agent to help sell the casket photo, with the proceeds to be divided between charity and a fund to help pay Silicio's debts in the wake of her firing.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Get this to Rush ASAP.

[mgc1122]

I hope this bit&h is never able to get another job until the day she dies.

[DoctorMichael]

Bttt

[Old Sarge]

Well, well. Two Leftist attack (female)dogs.

[rhombus]

Ms. Katz insisted last night that neither she nor Silicio had any political motivation, telling MSNBC that they thought publishing the photo was a good way of honoring the fallen troops.

Ah, did she check with the families of the "fallen troop" which she claim to care so much about?

[Southack]

"Reports unearthed by KTTH Seattle radio host Mike Siegel reveal that Katz and Silicio, who was fired Wednesday for violating the Pentagon's policy against photographing the caskets of slain GI's, sued Halliburton for sexual harassment..."

Talk radio is the only medium outside of the internet to do real reporting when it comes to liberals...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Having used several bathrooms in the Middle East it's a good idea. Where I worked, ours were kept clean but theirs looked like a restroom from a run down gas station even though both were built at the same time and identical.

[shhrubbery!]

I hope this bit&h is never able to get another job until the day she dies.

She's being lionized by the lamestream media. Just watch, some leftie outfit will give a job --maybe some rag will make her a "news photographer."

[F16Fighter]

Payback? Yep...Mercenaries? Yep.

All at the expense of exploiting the families of Americans slain in battle.

These two women are despicable.

[nmh]

Where was this amazing photographer when Clinton had troops in Serbia? Were those deaths not as sad?

That's what I love about liberals - their politically motivated hypocrisy and coldness.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Seattle attorney Patricia Buchanan represented both women in the lawsuit.

Did I miss the Pat Buchanan episode of "Extreme Makeover"?

[MHGinTN]

She is a typical sleazy, deceit-filled democrat liberal puke. Retch!

[AMNZ]

Another Paul Harvey, "Rest of the Story."

[Made In The USA]

Of course this point was NEVER mentioned during Diane Saywer's Good Morning America interview.

How about this bit of advice to the photographer: A company hired you to do a freakin' job, not to be a political activist. Loosing your job because you chose not to follow what your employer asks can and often will mean loosing your job.

I'm sure she can and will find gainful employment by the DNC, MoveOn.org, etc.

[BushisTheMan]

I understand that the government released some photos under the freedom of information act mistakenly.

The only positive in that event is that the casket photos are available for FREE and newspapers don't have to pay either of these b*tches any money to use them.

[texasbluebell]

And yet, the actions of this woman have not changed her own son's desire to become a Marine.

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The picture hasn't dissuaded Taylor from his plan to join the Marines in September.

"I've been planning to go into the Marines for a long time," he said. "I know she (Silicio) will be proud of me for going in."

[Slicksadick]

This could be her, based on the Kosovo experience.........
Amy Katz is a poet, world wanderer, naturalist, photographer, bear tracker, clairvoyant, dreamworker, doctoral student in intercultural communication and vision quest apprentice. She has lived in 8 countries, including Kosovo and Bosnia. Her poetry has appeared in The Silver Web, The Perceival Review, Chaotic Dreams, etc.

[LibWhacker]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001909527_coffin22m.html

Tami Silicio

[Smartass]

Both are sue happy moles. Both should be barred
from any governmental work or activities.