DOD Budget stalls over Sexual Assault
The entire DOD Budget, known as the National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA, is now stalled over amendments...one of which is my NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's "Military Justice Improvement Act.
Guess what...its because her amendment "sucks" !! I'm tired of being ignored by her and her myopic extreme feminist point of view. Not only does it not fix the problem it takes away the ability for a fair appeal under the law.
I have been vocal and as public as possible about supporting her "intent" but she refuses to pull her head out of the hole and see the STRATEGIC ISSUE...UCMJ is BROKEN.
My record of trial...not my emotionally compromised opinion...proves that the system is utterly broken.
No Investigation was conducted outside of a cubicle
No Evidence of any kind - medical or physical that an assault took place
A complaining witness under oath admits to stealing passwords, hacking into email accounts, lying to investigators and lying to the prosecution
Physical witnesses are called liars by the Military Judge
Evidence is denied by the Military Judge
These are facts from an official record of trial
Sexual Assault is just one of the many issue under UCMJ that has destroyed lives of men and women because of its failures and flaws.
I will say it again...I have ZERO TOLERANCE for any proven assault against any service member, but here in lies the rub..."PROVEN"
WE can all agree that under our Rule of Law, especially for what we all call "serious crimes" (rape, murder, assault, etc...) that we conduct a THOROUGH and FAIR investigation to ensure and VALIDATE that a CRIME did in fact take place before we throw people into court.
The Armed Forces cant get it right.
SO its 2013, lets put civilian oversight into the application of the law. Why not?
The Commander will still be in place, but he or she will be under serious scrutiny to do the right thing, but take the lawyers out of uniform. Take them out of the Evaluation system...Take them out of any relationship with the commander other than as advisor.
The presence of Rank and a uniform "muddies the waters" in each and every situation NOT on the battle field.
Lets meet half way with SEN MacCaskill and hold the Commander responsible.
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