Patricia Schroeder: “the Defense Department long has had an attitude of seeing no evil, hearing no evil and speaking no evil if it is a high…”

“the Defense Department long has had an attitude of seeing no evil, hearing no evil and speaking no evil if it is a high enough ranking official of one of the uniformed services. In other words, shut your ears, turn off your brain and give them a bigger pension. Mr. Speaker, today there are some very brave men and women on the other side of the Capitol who are bucking this tradition and saying about Admiral Kelso that he really does not deserve that, that there have been many investigations in the Navy that went afoul, that the whole Tailhook issue was about 87 sexual assaults for which no one was really held accountable. Mr. Speaker, we talk about crime on this floor but we allow people to ignore it on those who were in the military service, and they are standing up and talking about that and talking about many other incidents and breaking up the old boys' club that has gone on for much too long. Mr. Speaker, I think we can never hold other people accountable until we hold those at the top accountable and I do not think anything is so clear as it is that the Navy failed Admiral Kelso.”