The Nation: Why Won’t Congress Investigate the Sex Abuse Scandal at Lackland Air Force Base?

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The Nation: Why Won’t Congress Investigate the Sex Abuse Scandal at Lackland Air Force Base?

Posted by POD Staff, July 17th, 2012

Soumya Karlamangla reports in The Nation about Protect Our Defedenders:

“When [the Department of Defense’s] leadership clearly fails to solve a crisis for these long standing and epidemic proportions, we must demand that Congress do its job,” said Nancy Parrish, president of Protect Our Defenders, an organization dedicated to combating the prevalence sexual violence in the military…

Read the full article.

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