White House asked to probe Pentagon over rapes

(WASHINGTONEXAMINER) — A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to President Obama on Monday asking him to investigate the Pentagon for allegedly misleading Congress to prevent the passage of legislation to change how sexual assaults are handled in the military.

This year, investigations by the Associated Press and Protect Our Defenders, an advocacy group, found that the Defense Department intentionally misled Congress on how often the military prosecutes sexual assaults compared to civilian courts, in order to encourage lawmakers to vote down a proposal to take prosecution decisions out of the chain of command.

The senators previously contacted Defense Secretary Ash Carter asking for an explanation, but were dissatisfied with Carter’s explanation that the two groups doing the investigations “simply do not understand the military justice system” and that the alleged misrepresentation is actually just “a difference in definitions.”

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