National Journal: Gillibrand, Outside Group Push Back Against Military Sexual Assault Report
Protect Our Defenders President is featured in this article from the National Journal:
The subcommittee, which has nine members, was created as part of the Response Systems to Adult Sexual Assault Crimes Panel, established by the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.
And Protect Our Defenders, a military sexual-assault victims advocacy group, quickly hit back at the report.
“The idea that professional, independent, justice is good enough for American citizens, but not for those who risk their lives to protect our values is un-American,” said Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish, in a statement.”… This panel has so far decided to stand with the status quo and the hollow Pentagon promises of ‘zero tolerance.'”
Only one of the nine, Elizabeth Hillman, a law professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, disagreed with the subcommittee’s report, noting that commanders “are neither essential nor well-suited for their current role in the legal process of criminal prosecution.”
