GOP Candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green Says Dem Opponent Leaked Her Military File, Sexual Assault to Smear Her
Kristina Wong 10 Oct 2022
Republican Jennifer-Ruth Green, a graduate of the Air Force Academy and an Air National Guard lieutenant colonel, who is running for Indiana’s 1st congressional district, said her Democrat opponent, incumbent freshman congressman Rep. Frank Mrvan, is responsible for the illegal leaking of her military file and sexual assault to the media in a desperate attempt to smear her and slow her momentum.
“I’m a survivor of sexual trauma in the military. I am being forced to share this information outside of my own timeline and for the first time publicly because my Congressman, Frank Mrvan, and his cronies illegally obtained my military records describing my sexual assault. His team fished the details of my assault to different news outlets, asking them to share misinformation to portray me as a failed military officer who lacks integrity. This is false,” Green said in a statement.
Politico Magazine on Friday published a profile on Green that revealed that when she was deployed to Iraq in 2009, she was sexually assaulted by an Iraqi service member in a guard tower. Politico Magazine‘s Adam Wren wrote:
She left the group to climb into a cramped guard tower where Green says an Iraqi serviceman sexually assaulted her by grabbing her breast and exposing himself.
She said she was advised not to report the assault by a staff sergeant, who was also a military equal opportunity representative. He told her that ‘if American leadership complained to Iraqi leadership, they would continue to see women as liabilities and limit their ability to serve….’
Wren wrote that she received a bad performance review the next year and that she was separated from the active duty Air Force during a downsizing of personnel known as a “reduction in force.” Green said she believes it was retaliation for reporting her sexual assault when she was asked not to.
Green said her military file was leaked to Politico Magazine by Mrvan in an attempt to smear her and her military career and that she had begged Wren not to reveal her assault but that he did so despite her request.
Green told FOX News: “The reality of it is – like I said at one point in my life to my assailant, ‘No. Please stop. Don’t.’ – and [Wren] did what he wanted to do … This is the exact same situation all over again, all because there was a man who wanted some sort of gratification.”
“Congressman Frank Mrvan gets his gratification of trying to think he’s smearing my name. [Politico’s] Adam Wren gets his gratification of thinking he’s going to get a good smear story out of it. And all it does is essentially reopen wounds for victims,” she said.
Green has written the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Air Force, and the Pentagon, requesting a criminal investigation into the “unauthorized, unlawful” release of her Air Force personnel file.
“The fact that my file has been leaked in the course of my campaign for United States Congress leads me to believe that it was politically-motivated,” she said.
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