The
New York Daily News has this to say in "No hope of justice,"
an editorial about the court-martial of Army Brigadier General
Jeffrey A. Sinclair:
[Sen. Claire] McCaskill’s insistence that prosecutors believed Sinclair’s accuser highlights that the military system for handling sexual assault allegations is thoroughly discredited. Its prosecutors cannot be trusted to proceed on behalf of accusers based solely on the facts and the law — or to move against the accused on the same basis.
Placing authority in independent prosecutors and outside of the chain of command — as Canada, Israel and German[y] have done — would clear the murk that has kept victims from justice and the accused from fair trial.
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