When the military's top leaders line up and say they don't want to change a situation that's resulted in a massive number of sexual assaults going unpunished, and the Senate Armed Services Committee says you don't have to: Where's the oversight in that?
Yesterday the committee voted 17-9 against Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's logical fix: take reporting and prosecuting out of the chain of command, where the alleged perpetrator and the victim may serve together under a commanding officer, who probably knows both, and transfer that authority over to uniformed military lawyers who could dispassionately handle a victim's report.
