UPI: Senate Dems differ on ways to prosecute military sexual assaults
United Press International reports:
WASHINGTON- Sen. Carl Levin said he would offer a plan requiring senior U.S. military officers to review decisions to prosecute sexual assault cases in the military.
Levin’s proposal is similar to changes made last year by then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, which placed authority to investigate, and convene a court martial, in the hands of high-ranking military officers.
Nancy Parrish, president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, called Levin’s proposal “another half-measure that will essentially kick the can down the road. It is the low-level commanders who hold the initial disposition authority that can prevent a sexual assault case from ever moving forward.”
