Washington Post: Cain accuser wants to break her silence

[EffieBlack]

One of the women who accused GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment wants to tell her side of the story but is barred by a confidentiality agreement, her attorney in Washington said Tuesday.

Lawyer Joel P. Bennett called on the National Restaurant Association, where the woman and Cain worked in the late 1990s, to release the woman from her written promise not to talk about the allegations or disparage the trade group.

“It is just frustrating that Herman Cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants, and my client is blocked by a confidentiality agreement,” Bennett said. “The National Restaurant Association ought to release them and allow them to respond.”
. . .
Bennett represents one of the two women, who attended an Ivy League school and now works for the federal government. She has avoided the limelight since the allegations were aired, and she is staying with relatives while the media stakes out her home in suburban Maryland, Bennett said.

If she is released from the confidentiality ban, “then it is whole new ballgame,” Bennett said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/lawyer-cain-accuser-wants-to-talk-but-is-barred-by-agreement/2011/11/01/gIQA0bOIdM_story.html.

[11 Bravo]

1. I was just preparing to post this! What do you say now, Herman? Want to release her ...

from the confidentiality agreement?

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. I'll bet the Romney campaign is working on that "release" as we speak.

What's really funny is that the rightwing talking heads are blaming Democrats. Herman Cain would be a dream opponent. And this information would've been of much more use, once he got the nomination. Why would we screw with that?
:shrug:

[Skittles]

3. well that's what happens when you sell out for cash

[EffieBlack]

4. "sell out for cash?"

You are assuming that someone has "sold out" because they took a cash settlement as compensation for a civil wrong? What do you think these women should have done instead?

[Skittles]

5. what I did

smash him in the face with a stapler - bet the guy I did that to thought twice before harassing another gal

[EffieBlack]

6. Interesting-but I don't assume that other women who choose not to physically assault their harasser

but who opt instead to either use the legal system or settle out of court are "sellouts."

[Skittles]

7. that's a fucking shame