http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/pentagon-military-sexual-assault-94314.html?hp=t1_3
The country’s most senior military commanders filed into a Capitol Hill hearing room in June, sat in front of TV cameras and promised to stamp out military sexual assault — a problem Army chief of staff Gen. Ray Odierno called “a cancer.”
“We can and will do better,” Odierno told the senators.
why do they have to be pushed and threatened with lost of power in order to just admit it, and they knew probably all are complicit and had their stories, are they protecting the boyz club which they are part of from prosecution of their military perk, military women?
But privately, Pentagon lawyers and advisers were trying to limit just how much they’d have to do.Over the past three months, Pentagon lawyers and legislative officials met with senior lawmakers and aides, including the Senate Armed Services Committee staff director and its top lawyer, to persuade them to shut down a movement led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) to take the chain of command out of sexual assault cases.
so are they being deceitful they have to know the lawyers are trying to lessen the blow which by default heightens the detriment to those men and women being assualted.
The problem? When you hear about men sexually assaulting men, a lot of people think “gay.” And who’s already thinking “gay”? The religious right (see examples below). This report goes a long way towards explaining why lead anti-gay religious right groups have recently started blaming the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell for the military’s sexual assault problem.When you read between the lines, it seems these assaults could just as easily be examples of anti-gay bias in the military – i.e., straight service members using faux-gay sexual assaults to haze other service members (jumping into bed with them, pretending to have sex with them from behind, etc.) But the NYT article doesn’t bother mentioning that fact until you click to the second page, more than half-way through the entire story. And the explanation is more than a bit qualified:Many sexual assaults on men in the military seem to be a form of violent hazing or bullying, said Roger Canaff, a former New York State prosecutor who helped train prosecutors on the subject of military sexual assault for the Pentagon. “The acts seemed less sexually motivated than humiliation or torture-motivated,” he said.
Plus there are Capitol Hill liaisons, members of the military who regularly meet with key Hill staff to make the Pentagon’s case on a variety of issues. And three- and four-star generals also have little trouble securing meetings to make their own personal appeals to key senators when necessary.One of the military’s best assets is unheard of for any other special interest or agency: office space right inside the building. Each of the service branches has space in the basement of the Rayburn Office Building — across from a popular barber shop and food carryout and just one floor below the House Armed Services Committee’s offices and main hearing room. They also have offices a floor down from the Senate Armed Services Committee in the Russell Office Building.The setup inspires close friendships between Hill staff and military staff. The Air Force Liaison Office holds a monthly happy hour in the Rayburn building. The aides and military lobbyists have even collaborated on a cookbook, titled “Savory Secrets of Congressional staffers … and their Dangerous Liaisons,” according to a recent email invite.
what is all this BS they are they doing acts that are what they are railing against, why do we have to wine and dine and kiss them to do their jobs anyone connected with that idea needs to be discharged or fired, if you don't court me i won't give into you, sounds pretty feminine to me.
guess thats why they oppose Gays narrows the field for those already there.
