Slaughter and the Defense Dep’t
In a post released earlier today by Rep. Louise Slaughter on the Huffington Post, she expressed her outrage that the Defense Department would not allow Kaye Whitley to testify on Thursday at a hearing on sexual assault in the military. Dr. Whitley is the Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office at the Department of Defense, and she had been subpoenaed to testify.
Slaughter had this to say:
I am very disturbed by the DoD’s resistance to Congressional oversight on sexual assault. The DoD’s decision to keep Dr. Whitley from testifying undermines the progress the Pentagon has made in addressing sexual assault by suggesting that there is something to hide.
She has also introduced a comprehensive piece of legislation dealing with rape and sexual assault in the military:
For three Congresses, I have introduced the Military Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Act. This legislation will ensure greater protections for service members and their families if they become victims of sexual assault or domestic violence.
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