Equal Time with Martha Burk July 20, 2015 Still No Justice for Military Women
The U.S. Senate has done it again – blocked a vote on the Military Justice Improvement Act. It’s a bill by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that would move the decision about whether to prosecute sexual assault in the military from the chain-of-command and turn it over to independent military prosecutors. Right now, senior officers -- not law enforcement -- get to decide guilt or innocence. Most of the victims are afraid of being punished by superiors if they come forward. And for good reason.