Article: Panel rebukes air force over handling of rapesA 'deep chasm in leadership' is found

Diana Jean Schemo
International Herald Tribune
09-24-2003
Top leaders of the U.S. Air Force disregarded persistent warnings over the last decade that frequent and unpunished sexual assaults were undermining its academy in Colorado Springs, a civilian commission investigating the matter has reported. The commission also said Monday that the air force's general counsel largely ignored this history of official neglect when he reported on rape at the academy this year, in an effort ''to shield Air Force Headquarters from public criticism.'' The blistering report issued here by the commission, led by Tillie Fowler, a former congresswoman from Florida, said that sexual assault had been a problem ...

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