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Politico reports: The case is just one example of what the Pentagon’s own reports have concluded on sex crimes in...

Waco Tribune-Herald reports: When it comes to crimes of sexual assault, the military justice system is failing. It has lost...

Roll Call reports: According to the Pentagon, one of the most significant barriers to reporting sexual assault within the military...

Huffington Post reports on an appropriate response to a victim-blaming poster on MST where she lists Protect Our Defenders as...

A Post Star Editorial writes: “I was assaulted. I reported it. I endured the public humiliation and the end result...

Politico talks to Nancy Parrish, president of Protect Our Defenders: Nancy Parrish, president of the victim advocacy group Protect Our...

USA Today talks to Protect Our Defenders’ executive director, Taryn Meeks: The removal of 60 troops from sensitive positions is...

The US Army on sexual assault prevention: Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Seamands, director of military personnel management, Army G-1, spoke...

The Washington Post reports: As Congress debates whether to remove sexual assault cases from the chain of command to an...

Government Executive reports: Navy veteran and rape victim Ruth Moore struggled for more than two decades to resolve her disability...

Petoskey News-Review reports: Northern Michigan Congressman Dan Benishek, a Republican in Michigan’s 1st Congressional District, has been calling for fellow...

Politico reports: Winnefeld said last night that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel would ‘soon’ announce a half dozen new executive actions...

The Bob Edwards show features Paula Coughline, Protect Our Defenders board member: Paula Coughlin was a Lieutenant in the United...

Politico reports: On Tuesday night, she cornered South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott in the GOP’s private cloakroom. Along with Sen....

Detroit Free Press reports: U.S. Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Crystal Falls, has so far had little luck getting Republican leadership in...

TPM reports on Protect Our Defenders’ McCaskill attack ad: Publicly, the two Democratic women have remained cordial as they talk...

The AP reports: A Fort Carson soldier has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child after a 14-year-old...

A PBS Newshour story quotes Protect Our Defenders’ advisory committee board member Jessica Hinves: Jessica Hinves, an airman first class who...

Time Magazine reports: Last week, support continued to build for legislation sponsored by Senator Kirstin Gillibrand, D-N.Y., aimed at improving the military’s...

Washington Examiner talks to Protect Our Defenders’ Brian Purchia: Protect Our Defenders says McCaskill brought the criticism on herself with...

An editorial in the Chicago Tribune writes: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is pushing a bill that would take decisions about...

Houston Chronicle reports: The dispute between two Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee heated up Thursday when Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said an...

St. Louis Beacon reports on Protect Our Defenders’ campaign: In fact, Protect our Defenders, a group of such victims that...

WTKR reports: Jessica Hinves thought coming forward to report her rape was the right thing to do, but it ended...

MSNBC talks to Protect Our Defenders’ Executive Director, Taryn Meeks: Such voices have long held sway over much of the...

KOAA reports: Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today signed on as a cosponsor to a bipartisan bill introduced by Senator...

KQED talks to Mimi Chakarova is the director of “Her War”: Robert Rosenthal, who runs the Center for Investigative Reporting, spoke...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: An epidemic of sexual assaults in the service branches has become an embarrassing problem for the...

Fox News reports:   New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has assembled a remarkable bipartisan coalition of senators to support...

CNN reports: According to the official, investigators are looking into allegations that up to seven junior — or low-level —...

Politico reports: HAPPENING ON THE HILL – McCASKILL TO SPEAK ON MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT:Back home in Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill’s...

Army Times reports: “I welcome the time because I need to meet one-on-one with many of my colleagues to make...

Stars and Stripes reports: On Wednesday, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., pushed back against a proposal to...

An Editorial in the Chicago Tribune writes: But somehow our military managed to survive putting blacks and whites in the...

Raw Story reports: On a conference call with military sexual assault survivors, advocates and journalists on Wednesday evening, Sen. Kirsten...

Navy Times reports: Both votes came on amendments to the 2014 defense appropriations bill and address problems discovered as lawmakers...

Policymic reports:   Both senators have received top ratings from NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood,NOW, and EMILY’s List, so to see them on...

Politico reports: The two Democrats are fighting for votes ahead of a showdown expected after the August recess, when Gillibrand...

The Riverfront Times reports: Last month, Senator Claire McCaskill, who has been outspoken about the problem of sexual assault in the...

The Associated Press mentions Protect Our Defenders’ campaign and open letter written by Terri Odom: Protect Our Defenders, a Washington-based...

USA Today reports: COLORADO SPRINGS — A recently graduated cadet remembers waiting for her accused rapist at the Air Force...

San Antonio Express News reports: An NCO charged with forcibly raping a recruit in basic training went on trial Tuesday at Joint...

Bustle reports on Protect Our Defenders’ campaign targetting Sen. Claire McCaskill: Gillibrand argues that the chain of command is the...