Jackie Speier: “Next to me is a mug shot. It's a mug shot of someone who's been charged with sexual assault. This is a mug shot of…”

“Next to me is a mug shot. It's a mug shot of someone who's been charged with sexual assault. This is a mug shot of Jeffrey Krusinski. Jeffrey Krusinski is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. His job is to work at the Pentagon as the chief officer of the Sexual Assault and Prevention Office within the Air Force. This man is charged with the responsibility of preventing and reporting sexual assault in the military, in the Air Force. And just this last weekend, he was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a parking lot. The best and the brightest the Air Force has to offer to run this office, and he's a sexual predator? Is that what we're talking about? This is an indictment of the SAPRO office that is supposed to be the solution for military rape and assault. It's an indictment of our procedures. It's an indictment of everything we have done on this issue. And Congress is as culpable as the military in not addressing it, because we've known about this issue for 25 years. And we are big on holding hearings and beating our chests and saying, This has got to stop. And the big brass comes up to the Hill, and they say all the right words. They say, We have a zero tolerance. And then our chief prevention officer is charged with a sexual assault. But it doesn't end there. The bad news doesn't end there. The military just released today it's Sexual Assault and Prevention Office report on how many sexual assaults took place in the military last year.…”