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Article: Report Blames Air Force Leadership for Sex Scandal.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 23, 2003
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Byline: Judith Graham
Sep. 23--DENVER--A failure of leadership at the highest levels of the Air Force is responsible for "a decade of ineffective action" to stop rapes and sexual assaults at the U.S. Air Force Academy, a scathing report said Monday.
The study by a congressional commission is the first to hold Air Force leadership accountable for inadequate attention to the sexual assault problem, and insufficient oversight of attempts to find solutions.
It suggests the Air Force may have tried to conceal its long-standing awareness of sexual assaults at its elite college in its own investigation released in June, and in deciding not to ...