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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

Would you say it is a predominant reason that discourages victims from reporting, or is it just incidental and occasional?

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

How often, I think this point is critical, are victims or survivors, in effect, threatened with prosecution themselves?

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

Wouldn't you agree that right now there is that lack of credibility and trust?

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

Well, you should talk to some parents. You've talked to your wife. You should talk to parents--I don't know whether you have children--who have to pay their children's cell phone bill.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

the military has a great opportunity to teach some lessons to the civilian world.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

I think indicates the passion and zeal that needs to be brought to this problem by the commanding officers.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

the crime of sexual assault sullies the good name and honor of the greatest military in the history of the world.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

It is very, very difficult to make the kind of judgments about whether to charge someone with a crime.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

Those kinds of rights are basic to fairness and to trust, it seems to me.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

We know from the numbers, though, and you do, that there is a lack of reporting.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

You must change the culture, and you have to make commanders more accountable for having command climates that ignore sexual harassment and assault.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

Some spectrum is the equivalent of beachfront property; and others, less desirable.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

You will be charged with drinking. You will be charged with adultery. You will be charged with conduct unbecoming.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jun 3, 2013

You can't have reporting--you can't have prosecution without reporting.

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Kirsten Gillibrand
@kirstengillibrand· Democratic · NY· Jun 3, 2013

Success is going to look like this. More reports of rape, sodomy, and assault, and less incidents of rape, sodomy, and assault.

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