[VIDEO] MSNBC: Military rape survivors sue US defense secretaries
Weekends with Alex Witt interviews Protect Our Defenders’ partner attorney Susan Burke about her suit against the Naval Academy:
Attorney Susan Burke joins MSNBC’s Alex Witt to discuss sexual assault
in the military. She has sued former Defense Secretaries Robert Gates
and Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of 28 military rape survivors and
currently represents the alleged Naval Academy rape victim. Burke does
not believe that fair sexual assault investigations are possible
within the chain of command still in place. She underscores how
assault is a decades-long problem and an epidemic. Burke gives the
background of her Naval Academy case and how it illustrates the bias
and conflict of keeping an assault investigation within the chain of
command.
